billkilpatrick
Jun-24-2004, 2:12pm
over on the lute list there's a very interesting thread with the same title concerning the key your instrument is made in. #here are the initial questions:
- does a lute maker know how a lute is going to sound as he's building it? or, is he unsure until he has put tensioned strings on the finished product?
- i've heard tales of a lutemaker who could tell by knocking on a tree how it will (most likely) sound ...
- i took my lute for repair to a violin maker and she blew in the sound hole to figure out my instrument's tuning: the bowl was in D, she said.
it's this last entry that really started it off.
what sound does your instrument make without strings? (this is not a dharma question...)
- bill
- does a lute maker know how a lute is going to sound as he's building it? or, is he unsure until he has put tensioned strings on the finished product?
- i've heard tales of a lutemaker who could tell by knocking on a tree how it will (most likely) sound ...
- i took my lute for repair to a violin maker and she blew in the sound hole to figure out my instrument's tuning: the bowl was in D, she said.
it's this last entry that really started it off.
what sound does your instrument make without strings? (this is not a dharma question...)
- bill