Hi Wandervogelistas,
Following Christopher's hints I came across the so-called
Stoessel-Laute, which seems to have been enormously popular in
the early 20th century in Germany, in several variations. It was a very
cheap instrument normally, thus probably no fun to try. But some of the
pictures look more promising, thus investing a little amount might be
worth it, for special purposes and repertoire. Does anyone own such an
instrument or at least know how it sounds? Any advice how to get a not
too bad one? Are there luthiers who build these instruments?
Thanks and best
Franz
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Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von Christopher Stetson
Gesendet: Mi 05.05.2010 13:05
An: lute; wolfgang wiehe
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: stringing of a "wandervogellaute"
Hi, Wolfgang and all.
I don't have a guitar lute, but several early 20th c. guitars. Why
get
fancy? Just buy a standard classical guitar string set. It will at
least come close, and the good news is the price. In 1920 it would
still have been gut. and you can get a standard gut set for about 30
USD here in the USA. I'd probably go with an Aquila nylgut
Alabastro
set (10 USD here in USA) , but any classical guitar set would
probably
be fine. I'm even thinking of trying D'Addarios on my 1900 parlor
guitar (currently Alabastros), because they sound so good on my
friend's 1909 guitar.
And you might find it's not a bad instrument if you let it be what
it
is. There's an interesting body of German songs with guitar from
1903
to 1917 here:
[1][2]http://www.muslib.se/ebibliotek/boije/Boije_g.htm ,
presumably the music it was made to play, and potentially
fascinating
historically. Look in Gitarristische Vereinigung and Der
Guitarrefreund Musikbeilage. I've been wanting to explore them for
awhile, but it never quite makes the top of the list.
Best to all, and keep playing,
Chris.
>>> "wolfgang wiehe" <wie-w...@gmx.de> 5/5/2010 6:09 AM >>>
hello all,
I get a present from member of our church choir: a 6-string
"wandervogelgitarre" 63cm mensur. It is the instrument of her father
(born in 1904). so its about 90 years old. not very pretty but
corpus
and soundboard without cracks and with intact mechanics. the
instrument
is stringed with nylon and cu-wounded guitar strings (more than 30
years old and made in GDR!), make a deep bass sound (I tuned it in
D)....
Someone has experiences with stringing this furniture? mathias
roesel
told me to string it with nylgut (4 kg tension....)
greetings
w.
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