Dear Monica,
As far as I can see, the evidence from extant instruments seems to be
that slotted bridges were often employed in the 17th century,
especially by French makers; Italian makers seemingly preferring a
bridge with individual string holes (tho' there are exceptions).
Well, my guitar has holes for the bridge. I can't comment on the
historical accuracy of it.
In my imagination, I always assumed the use of slots gave you the
option to adjust the spacing between strings on a course. Maybe
different players had different preferences. Or maybe you
Dear Martin
That is very helpful and very interesting especially what you say about them
improving the bass response. I don't know much about how guitars were
constructed and it seems difficult to get detailed and accurate information
about them and in particular to find out whether they
Dear Rocky
Very interesting again.
My slots are square shaped but taper i.e. bigger at the front than at the
back. At the rose side the feet go straigtht down onto the table but at
other side they end in the bar of the bridge. One disadvantage of the
slots which I have found is that they
Maybe a lot to ask, but it would be both valuable and interesting, and
certainly is not impossible. As a fan of mandolin going back as far as
there have been instruments to carry related names, one of my favorite
references is:
Morey, Stephen. 1993. Mandolins of the 18th century. Editrice
This is exactly the kind of survey you've requested here, but of
instruments
that were (or were most likely) named similarly to mandolin. It clocks a
relatively brief 154 pages. Each chapter has a description of the basic
characteristics of each type, and then simply catalogues known
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From: Monica Hall [mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 10:32 AM
To: Eugene C. Braig IV
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Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar bridges
Exactly - now who will volunteer to write it.
I would love to... if it weren't for that
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From: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu
To: 'Monica Hall' mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: 'Vihuelalist' vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:32 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar bridges
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From: Monica Hall
Sounds like a plan. ...If I can convince you to coauthor!
Eugene
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From: Monica Hall [mailto:mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:06 AM
To: Eugene C. Braig IV
Cc: Vihuelalist
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar bridges
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One explanation has been that slotted bridges allow more adjustment of
string height at the bridge but, in my experience, there is no very
significant difference whether tied from the top or bottom of the slot
since static forces will always tend to pull the point where the string
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