FoMRHI has been resurrected for a couple of years now. Much praise
needs to go to the
new Secretary, Chris Goodwin (also Sec of the Lute Soc) for his hard
work.
Martyn
--- On Fri, 26/11/10, Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com
Thanks, Martyn
Stress is independent of diameter for a gi= ven string length and
pitch
so a string of 0.45mm will break at the same pitch as one of 0.50m= m
or
0.40 (or any other diameter). Clearly tho' a thicker string will
require a greater tension to bring it up to the
Sorry for the garbled message. I'll try again
Thanks, Martyn
Stress is independent of diameter for a given string length and pitch
so a string of 0.45mm will break at the same pitch as one of 0.50mm
or
0.40 (or any other diameter). Clearly tho' a thicker string will
Dear Anthony,
Regarding pitching of lutes, we have good historic evidence that this
is closely related to the tensile strength of gut. Thus whatever the
pitch one generally tunes the highest course to just under breaking.
As a rough guide I use the following
Dear Anthony,
Here are my experiences with plain gut basses: I have 2 renaissance
lutes strung in all gut - on the 6th and 7th courses I use a tension of
about 3kg (for an F-lute at 440, 66cm) or 2.9kg (G-lute at 440, 60.5cm)
for the low basses. This is actually slightly higher
Dear All,
I suppose I should add an explanation for why I need this gluing
technique.
I have always regretted that my Baroque lute was strung for 415Hz
rather than for 392 (for which I had actually asked my lute maker, but
he had forgotten this). The main reason for 392
