, and it
shouldn't be a problem with more recent instruments.
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From: Edward Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: How About A Lute-Care Handbook?
I have
At 02:52 PM 2/10/2008, Anthony Hind wrote:
It used to be said that all flat sound-boarded instruments, including
guitars, had a fairly short life span of about twenty years, before
they need to have their sound-boards replaced.
Failure at 20 years seems as myth-like as survival to 400 to me. I
see also:
Jiri Cepelaks website:
Taking care of your lute:
http://lute.cepelak.cz/care.pdf
Henner
Martin Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Yes, David Van Edwards' booklet, published by the Lute Society, is
excellent. Also, have a look at:
http://lute.cepelak.cz/care.pdf
Best to
Yes, David Van Edwards' booklet, published by the Lute Society, is
excellent. Also, have a look at:
http://lute.cepelak.cz/care.pdf
Best to All,
Martin
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It's definetely a very interesting question. Indeed most lute players DO
know how to take care of their lute(s), but as far as I can remember little
guides related to how tochange frets, etc are around. Look on lutemakers
web sites (many around)!
A good one is available
Reading this, I couldn't help but to wonder whose lutes this guitar
repairman is seeing in his shops. No mention was made of that. We are
pretty-well aware that some lutes (the term Pakistani has been bandied
about) are of inferior or bizarre manufacture. If these are the lutes
that guitar-players
David:
Maybe this guy's guitar-playing friends are all as uninformed about lutes
as he is, and the only lute any of them has ever purchased is one of the
Pakistani approximations available in quantity on E-Bay. Apparently
those are indeed unplayable as received (I have never seen one) and might
I have seen a few of them, and yes, they are unplayable as received.
ed
At 11:10 AM 2/10/2008 -0600, Daniel F Heiman wrote:
David:
Maybe this guy's guitar-playing friends are all as uninformed about lutes
as he is, and the only lute any of them has ever purchased is one of the
Pakistani
instruments.
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I have seen a few of them, and yes
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I have seen a few of them, and yes, they are unplayable as received.
ed
At 11:10 AM 2/10/2008 -0600, Daniel F Heiman
Hmm, maybe a list of guitar repair specialists not to take your lute
to, too?
Seriously though, most lutenists who buy their new lute from a luthier
usually stay in close contact for a while and if it's a first lute,
pester them for years with questions. I know I did. If 2nd hand, the
Good points, David and Sean. I also know of a well known guitar maker ,
who has very strange ideas about guitars and lutes. He states they are
poorly made, as they are too lightly constructed, and that the old
vihuela makers, if they knew what they were doing, would heavily construct
David van Edwards wrote a short guide to taking care of your lute -
published by The Lute Society.
Rob MacKillop
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