These instruments were developed in the late nineteenth century as a lute shaped guitar to give a sort of historical depth to the late romantic notion of players being like early travelling minstrels and the like. Accordingly string your instrument like a nineteenth century guitar ie gut for strings one to three and overwound for the rest. There's also some evidence that they may have a link to the historical mandora/gallichon: but this is more tenuous since the last recorded professional mandora player died around 1810 - but it's possible the instrument continued to be played by amateurs and contributed to the development of the wandervogel instrument. MH >> Betreff: [LUTE] Stringing Question (German Lute) >> Datum: 2017-11-30T19:58:23+0100 >> Von: "Tristan von Neumann" <[1]tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> >> An: "lutelist Net" <[2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm currently repairing my old German Lute (6x1, 62cm), previously >> decorative only. Some ribs have come apart. I managed one connection >> already. >> I noticed that it has very thin ribs (about 1-1.5mm), however the >> soundboard is quite thick judging at the rose (about 4-5mm). >> There is one leftover string attached on the 4th course, it seems >> contemporary and is wound metal. >> The lute has a one piece carved pegbox with ornamented back plate and >> flowerhead, and mechanical pegs. The fingerboard has metal frets with >> arches in between. The strings are attached with wooden pins into holes >> in the bridge. >> It seems about 100 years old. No maker's plate is visible inside the bowl. >> After having it in ok condition I plan to string it -- what would you >> suggest? Metal or nylon (in the latter case I'll use my fishing line)? >> Is there a way to tell if it was metal or gut strung? >> Personally I would prefer metal for more cittern-like sound, unless >> anyone advises strongly against it. >> >> Cheers >> Tristan >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>
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