I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Very nice ! Any sound bytes ? Would love to hear it !
Jo, I know you copied an old instrument but how and why is the neck constructed of what looks like two parallel pieces?
Ah, I also see it in photos on this shop's site. I am curious.
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I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Another fine piece of creative craftsmanship, Jo. You really have a wonderful skill in recreating those old instruments.
Are the two thin posts which are on either side of the neck block structural oe simply decorative? I am wondering if they help you to set the neck correctly? I see there are two on the old instrument you have pictured above.
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I think what you are seeing John is the fingerboard and the dowel. I believe there is only one, like Jo's, just the shot angle that makes it look like two.
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They are purely decorative. They are called 'columns' and were probably on the cittern as a homage to the body shape of it's earlier ancestor, the citole, or perhaps to the arms of a lyre.
Are we talking about the same thing? I'm confused now...
Yes, but you're assuming I can read that! I can only read modern notation. Renaissance tablature has all sorts of letters and symbols which mean various things, not like modern tabs with just fret numbers. Cittern tablature is also much rarer than lutre tablature, since it was considered a 'common' instrument played in baber's shops etc, unlike the lute. So less was written down and/or survived.
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
Jo, I have to ask -- do you cut your amazing ornate soundhole patterns on a CNC, or by hand?
Beautiful work!
By hand with a set of skalpels. I glue a pattern to the soundboard, cut out the holes, then do releif carving to give a 3D effect. Then the remaining paper is sanded off.
Here's a closer-up view of one I did for a lute for a customer, which is a similar design to the one I used here:
I am a luthier specialising in historical and world stringed instruments. You can see more info at my website.
I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. - Eric Morecambe
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOldBores
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