Graham,
The UK Lute Society sells The Care of Your Lute by David Van Edwards
very reasonably priced.
Sean
On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Graham Freeman wrote:
All,
With the conversation below in mind, can anyone suggest a good
book or
other source that can assist with some of the DIY-elements of
playing
the lute? I'm probably getting my luthier to do things that I
ought to
be able to do myself. Where should we go to teach ourselves how to
do
this without destroying our instrument during the learning?
Graham Freeman
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Sean Smith <[1]lutesm...@mac.com>
wrote:
Dear Wim,
At the bottom of [1]this page you'll find a handful of string
calculators. They aren't difficult to use. As you continue down
the
garden path that is the lute world you'll find yourself changing
frets,
measuring lengths and diameters, tying knots, playing with
matches,
knives and clippers and generally slipping into a DIY culture.
It's
just the way it is. You can pick up digital calipers in the US
for
~$10(!) from [2][2]www.HarborFreight.com and every luter should
have one
near his string box.
Both strings and their surrounding conversation are, in turns,
fascinating, boring, colorful, off-putting, helpful, misleading
(in the
sense of useful for some; less for others), historic, almost
historic,
historic looking, maybe historic sounding, modern, "whatever",
and
lots
of flavors in between depending on period, instrument,
experiance,
purpose, budget and whim (pun intended :^). Spend a couple of
hours in
the archives --you'll see. I'm sure plenty of opinions and
contentions
arose in the old days too so, in that sense, we are being fairly
historic and maybe as, characteristically, nerdly. Eventually
you'll
realize it's not a bug but a feature.
Have fun and good luck,
Sean
On Jul 3, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Wim Loos wrote:
Dear all,
My renaissance 8-course lute, string lenghts 615 mm,pitch
a=415 Hz
need
new strings. It is tuned g'g' d'd' aa ff cc Gg Ff Dd I will try
Nylgut, can anybody advise me wich plain/wounded strings I shoud
buy.
Present I use nylon strings.
Thanks in Advance,
Wim Loos
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