Making Early Stringed Instruments

Contains measured drawings and detailed instructions for 8 instruments; a classical guitar, mandolin, fiddle, appalachian dulcimer, lute, harp, rote or lyre and a psaltery.

CONTENIDO:

List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Historical comment
2. Basic tools required
3. Some devices to make
4. Tricks of the trade
5. About reading drawings
6. Converting to imperial dimensions
7. Fundamentals of plucked string acoustics
8. Materials
9. Adhesives
10. Finishing
11. Action
12. Fretting without tears
13. Strings and fitting them

Plan section and building guide

14. Bowed psaltery
15. Rote or lyre
16. Compostelan lute
17. Appalachian dulcimer
18. Flat-Backed Mandolin
19. Mediaeval fiddle
20. Gothic Arp
21. Classic Guitar
22. Choosing music for the instruments
Bibliography
List of suppliers
Index