Hi Benjamin, Why not shorten the neck extension? In that case you would not have to worry about the number of frets and the resulting decrease (maybe op to 10 cm. of diapason for the base strings) would possibly not make that much of a difference acoustically.
Greetings, Lex van Sante Op 10 mrt 2015, om 09:46 heeft Benjamin Narvey het volgende geschreven: > Hmmmm. Still no thoughts? > > Sent from my iPad > > On 07 Mar 2015, at 23:20, BENJAMIN NARVEY <[1]luthi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear collected wisdom, > I'm rather wondering what the minimum number of tied frets is for > historical lute instruments, notably for theorbo(s). I am unfortunately > having to consider having an instrument shortened for travel purposes, > and this may involve reducing the stopped string length; I know of many > large theorboes with only 8 tied frets, but are there any with only 7? > With best wishes, > Benjamin > -- > [2]www.luthiste.com > t +33 (0) 6 71 79 98 98 > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:luthi...@gmail.com > 2. http://www.luthiste.com/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
