My most sincere thanks, Chad, Bob, Clive and Sterling. This copy you mentioned, Bob, may help me a lot. I could resend it to my luthier. On the other hand, I found a modern tendency to separate a bit more the strings at the nut (more separation between the strings of a course, moving the octave to the right of the former position, as we can see in the image linked below. Note the previous nut marks and the real position of the octave. That's probably trying to minimize the *slapping effect?*)
http://www.lute.net/instruments/blute0606/pegf.jpg My best regards for you, Juan Fco. Prieto. P.S.: Ah, Mr. Barto, let me say that your 7th Weiss recording is breathtaking! One of the best of the Naxos series IMHO (I own till now all the 8 CD and it's really very hard to make such choice, because we are accoustomed to an always outstanding performance). The sound itself is even richer than usual, with some " *microfluctuations*" in tone (Maybe due to the more flexibility of nylgut? I don't know, but your Rutherford seems to sound deeper and more *nasal*) that are adding a *plus* to the final sonic result. I have no words -my English is so limited...- to express how this recording impressed me. I noticed, also, the main tone is lowered one half tone respect to A=415. Don't stop recording, please. 2007/5/25, Chadwick Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Juan and Bob > I am finishing a swan neck b lute, and I thought a discussion would > be nice also for the left hand. For the eight fingered courses I have made > > two templates with an overall spacing of 57.5mm and the other at 59mm. I > am > unsure which to start with. I was reading some info on Linda Sayce's > website > which she indicates that you can ask the hand to stretch along the strings > > or across them but not both simultaneously. This is the only online > mention > of the nut spacing that I have found. > > > Chad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Juan Fco. Prieto [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:51 AM > To: lutelist; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LUTE-BUILDER] String spacing. Please Help. > > Dear lutenists and luthiers: > > I need to make a decision on string spacing matter for my next baroque > lute. > Could you suggest me a "*standard*" string spacing (at nut and at bridge) > for a baroque lute (13 c., bass rider 707/770 string length)? What about > string distribution? Do you agree with this "*Roman Turovsky law*"?: > > "Another important point is the bridge spacing (see above). It is > recommended to have a distance of 15.5 cm between the top and the bottom > strings, even if you have small hands. This bridge spacing allows one to > play cleanly." > ( http://polyhymnion.org/swv/theaxe.html) > > My span is 23 cm. long (End of thumb to end of pinkie, hand extended) A > brief poll about your lute string spacing may help me. > Thanks all the people in advance. And specially thanks to Roman Turovsky > for > this -above mentioned- awesome web page. > Greetings from Spain. > -- > Juan Fco. Prieto. > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- Juan Fco. --
