GL - A&S questions

[Jason Bressie]

I have always wanted to learn how to make and play a lute or a older version 
of it. Aidan Fraser


>From: "Richard Culver" <rbculver at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: glaslyn at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: elfsea at Ansteorra.ORG
>CC: glaslyn at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject: GL - A&S questions
>Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 18:22:11 CST
>
>Wassail!
>
>     ( I have mentioned this to Glaslyn's populace, but I need all the help 
>I can get :)  )
>
>    I am in search of people who can give me advice on A&S projects.  I 
>very much would like, in this second try at the SCA, to be more involved 
>with all points, not just fighting.
>     I have at least one project in mind.  It is going to involve some 
>woodworking.  One question for example would be if old instruments used 
>catgut for strings and wood for the pegs, would working reproductions have 
>to have the same.  I am planning on such a thing, but want them actually 
>playable and to do so may require things like bronze guitar strings, metal 
>tuning pegs (could use oak pegs in theory but I think they would eventually 
>give using metal strings) and reinforcement of the bridge which would most 
>likely be not visible from the outside.  I could make non-working examples, 
>but I would think people may want to hear these.
>     If there is anyone who could spare some face-to-face teaching and 
>maybe even show me their examples (purely because I am audio-visual in 
>learning style) or pictures of their displays in detail, I would greatly 
>appreciate it.
>
>
>Godspeed,
>Cyniríc Cyniwarding
>
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