Could it perhaps be Leonard, that the grooves at your nut at 5C was
set up for your thicker unisson strings. Something similar happened to
me on my 11C lute, when I replaced Venice twine unissons on F4 with
equivalent thinner loaded strings. I heard a definite rattle. I put the
Would it adhere better to bone (or, shudder, ivory) than a hard plastic
nut? Wood would be acceptable, too, I suppose.
It might be that magic material to quickly build up a worn fret, too.
Carefully done, of course.
Sean
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 3:26 PM John Mardinly
A lutemaker friend did the work and I can't distinguish it from the
original bone on the nut.
He called it dentine. It seemed to be liquid and in a small bottle.
Perhaps it's a sort of ceramic used for filling front teeth, but I
admit I'm not sure. Perhaps a lute maker on the list
Very cool. Dan Erlewine is just so full of cool tricks-he is amazing.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
On Nov 28, 2019, at 4:16 PM, Steve Ramey <[1]stevera...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Don't know about dentist's "dentine", but here's a trick that may
help.
[2]The baking soda and
I have seen a similar problem when moving to smaller diameter strings,
especially if the nut was filed with jeweler's files giving it a âv'
shaped profile . However, what is 'dentist's dentine', some sort of
magic epoxy?
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
On Nov 28, 2019, at 1:32
Well, the non-silver composites used for fillings today do have
phenomenal properties, but I thought they all needed a special light to
cure them.
A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E.
On Nov 28, 2019, at 3:12 PM, Anthony Hind
<[1]agno3ph...@mail.cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
A
Dear Lute list,
since a couple of days the Mandora-Website is online and I've put some
information there. It's far away from beeing complete but step by step
I try to fill it with more information, articles, adresses. Maybe that
soon I'll change the structure a bit, but nothing
Love 5th and 6th in octaves...only play that way.
Le sam. 23 nov. 2019 5 h 10 p.m., Edward Martin
<[1]edvihuel...@gmail.com> a écrit :
I think you will be surprised at how you will like the 5 th
course in
octaves. Good luck!
Sent from my iPhone
Something I had not thought of--width of groove. Depth should not
be a problem; in fact, near the nut the upper surface of the octave
should be lower than the bass. BUT--I had not considered looseness
across the groove. I'll look into that.
Thanks for the tip!
Regards,
