At 06:01 PM 12/13/2006, LGS-Europe wrote: > > I can tune it to a lute pitch. The scale is 23 1/4". It would be my hope > >What's that in cm? If it's somewhere close to guitar third fret you can use >a normal set of guitar strings.
Around 59 cm, which doesn't seem out of the question for terz tuning (retuning the b-flat to a) using relatively light, off-the-shelf guitar string sets. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html