String also collide when they or one of them in a course are false. To know if they are false look at the way they vibrate when plucked. This technique was well known amongst players of old. I think it was Dowland (translating instructions of Besard) who considers it too well known to go into it in detail. Only one false string is enough for a pair to collide because they will vibrate out of phase.
Cheers, Lex Op 21 jul 2011, om 07:13 heeft Ed Durbrow het volgende geschreven: > Are you using overspuns? I think you will find an improvement with gut > of the correct thickness and tension. However, please tell us what the > actual spacing is. I had this same problem with my current Ren lute > when I first got it. It was an 8 course. I had the bridge re-spaced to > become a 7 course and the string spacing within a course expanded and > that solved the problem. > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote: > > The lute is an archlute made by Joel van Lennep, who knows what he > does, > which strongly suggests that I am the problem or maybe the strings. > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [1]http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ > [2]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > -- > > References > > 1. http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ > 2. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
