A good reason for opaque paint is to cover significant damage underneath, so maybe one owner wasn’t trying to create a fraud, but just make a scarred...
Well, it was easy to find a few reasonably scientific tests, but to a believer, meaningless; as Mr. Garber points out, it’s in our heads. That said,...
My recent Mexican flat top A, no great wonder of an instrument, but good tweaking material, has a tiny bridge, like a bowl back, a fretboard attached...
Mousing around on the net last week I found a pair of tourist-grade lutes or maybe ouds that were similar, but one had the top grain perpendicular to...