A point to consider in sizing the gut (or nylon) frets is the height of the 3 or 4 fixed frets on the soundboard (usually k-m or 9-12). You don't want the upper tied frets to be lower than the fixed ones, or you will have some buzzing and rattling.
Leonard Williams On 5/8/08 1:47 PM, "Bruno Correia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
