David,
In this quote:
" However, I would add that most lutes made nowadays are not copies
of
originals. They are rescaled, resized, rebarred, rebridged, reglued,
revarnished.
Available is everything: everything-except-original.
Now, you may want that. Personally, I think everyone needs a reality
check instrument that is a copy of an original. Otherwise, it is
just a
guitar, basically, with wonky pegs.
"
You have insulted lutes, guitars, builders, glue, wood and varnish.
In your discussion of lute problems you have demonstrated why each
original builder would make a lute to suite the buyer (even
Stradivarius did). In the time of the lute, they took the necks off and
added longer, wider necks and more strings. Your original was reworked
to match the owner as you demand now. How would that have maintained an
original.
Louis Aull
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