On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:46:47 +0000, Martin Shepherd wrote > Dear Anthony and All, > > This is a great mystery. I can see no possible interpretation of > Capirola's remarks other than the one you suggest - BUT I have tried > it, and it doesn't work! You can make some notes buzz some of the > time, but I cannot see how you could possibly set it up so that all > notes buzzed, and to roughly the same extent. If you really want a > buzzing effect, the obvious way to do it is to thread something > between the strings just in front of the bridge. > > Has anyone else tried it?
Yes, Crawford Young did extensive research & experiments on this topic. IIRC the double-fret method didn't yield any convincing result, but you might want to contact Crawford to get all the details. Cheers, Ralf Mattes > Best wishes, > > Martin > > On 09/02/2011 13:31, Anthony Hind wrote: > > I find interesting your idea (which I recognize is just a passing > > suggestion, > > and not a theory) that this lute might have been set-up for a Capriola Bray-harp > > effect, by setting the string height and the frets in such a way as to > > intensionly cause the strings to buzz on the equal frets. It would be > > interesting to experiment such a set-up, to see what happens. > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- R. Mattes -- Systemeinheitsstreichler Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg [email protected]
