As a retired luthier of little note, my experience and study is that just about everything has been done before. However, the top decoration on a lute bridge is just decoration. There have been ivory-fretted lutes, which I think has its place today (using imitation ivory). A string-saddle on a lute bridge is just ugly... > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:44:09 -0700 > To: bruno.l...@gmail.com; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > From: dwinh...@lmi.net > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Lute bridge > > Never had a bone on any of my lute bridges (except the guitar saddle > bone on my first guitary-semi-lute). I have never seen a bone on any > lute bridge either. A thin slice of bone, ivory, or hard wood seems like > a good idea to limit string wear on the top edges of a bridge, so long > as it does not increase mass to the extent of degrading the sound. Of > course, as a player & not a luthier I'm sure I haven't all the lutes out > there. Maybe some Tielke extravaganza has bone or ivory bridge decoration. > > What particular lutes have you seen with this feature? Any pictures? > > Dan > > On 7/25/2014 11:06 AM, Bruno Correia wrote: > > A question (maybe to the luthiers): What's the function (if any) of the > > bone that is glued on the top of the bridge? Is that only ornamental or > > it is sonically important? I noticed that some lutes and guitars have > > these pieces of bone and others don't. Classical guitars have a saddle > > on the bridge which helps not only to adjust the string height but also > > transmit better the vibrations to the top. > > A Any thoughts? > > -- > > Bruno Figueiredo > > A > > Pesquisador autA'nomo da prA!tica e interpretaAS:A-L-o > > historicamente informada no alaA-ode e teorba. > > Doutor em PrA!ticas InterpretativasA pela > > Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. > > > > -- > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
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