Dear Umut, That's very interesting. Thomas Mace, in his book 'Musick's Monument' lists pearwood among the woods from which 'very good lutes' can be made. And yet, nowadays, we seldom find it used in the making of replicas of historic lutes.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Bill From: Mustafa Umut Sarac <[email protected]> To: Alexandros Tzimeros <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 7:16 Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] Re: What about pear wood? Pearwood is used by Turkish Luthiers for the body of Turkish lutes for more than hundreds of years . Umut -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
