On Jun 24, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Matthew Daillie <dail...@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Anyway, ask any reputable maker, it's not a job they enjoy doing (and I have > had it done on a couple of my lutes). Some makers prefer to make a new bridge > which can be glued on to the soundboard without it being removed, but others > would only consider fitting a new bridge with the top off. When I wanted my bridge respaced, I was told, “No problem, just basic fill and drill.” Of course, he was a restorer and repair guy (with a studio filled with pre-1850 pianos), not a lute builder, so his attitude toward respacing a bridge may have been different from a builder who’d rather spend time building the next instrument. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
