Thanks to all for replying so elaborately, and thanks to Mimmo's kind reply off-list. It has been a helpful discussion.
On 6 December 2010 19:06, Anthony Hind <agno3ph...@yahoo.com> wrote: > What tension are you actually using? It was in the first message, but chopped of by now, I suspect. I quote myself: >> courses five, six and seven of a 61cm lute at 30 to 33N << Not particularly low tensions, but too low for the loaded guts. In the meantime (another concert on this instrument coming up) I've changed them back to pistoys, my preferred choice of bass strings on courses 5 to 7 on any lute in the first place. I'll save the loaded guts for more appropriate use on anther instrument. These are great soiunding strings, after all. -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
