I suspect you're using single gut frets: try the (historically preferred) double frets. The first fret takes most of the wear whilst the second provides a much longer lasting cut-off point.
MH --- On Thu, 8/5/08, Bruno Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Bruno Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LUTE] Frets > To: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Thursday, 8 May, 2008, 6:47 PM > Dear Lutists, > > Returning to the issue of frets, are all the fret-gut > availlable today of > the same quality? I'm probably buying from Aquila (as I > have been doing > lately) but they wear out very fast. > > Also, for an 8 course instrument in g, what would be the > avarage gauge for > the first fret? I use 1 mm, then should I go down to 0.9, > 0.8, 0.7 and > follow until the last one with 0.7? > > It seems that the bigger frets give some falsiness to the > tunning (1st and > 2nd), because if I press the string a little harder the > pich goes up, and > the octaves present some problems too. This happens > basically on the 1st and > 2ns frets. > > Any advice? > > Thanks. > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
