David van Ooijen wrote:
The basses are shortish, so a higher tuning would be better, actually. If the instrument is tuned to g', gut diapassons are possible (if cost is an issue use fret gut, it really is so much better than any of the modern materials), otherwise carbon or metal-wounds seem to be the best option.
Beginner's questions. Is the superiority of gut down to the shorter sustain time that someone mentioned earlier? Is string damping really unpopular? (unnecessary?) andy To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
