On 2/7/2008, "Martyn Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dear - not again. This is,of course, very speculative and the weight of > evidence is against a high octave on the second course (mainly because it'd > break on anything approaching a decent sized continuo theorbo).
Well, inspired by this discussion I just destroyed a couple of Mimmo's wonderful nylguts (36 and 38) by trying them as the high e double in my Dieffopruchar, 86.7cm... The breaking point was reached... ;-) Arto PS Double re-entrant rulez! ;) To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html