> >I played for some time an instrument with doubled first course, the >>spacing was very important and the sound was not good above an F.
Exactly my experience- Barber-Harris vihuela, 64.5 cm sl, doubles worked at f, no higher- (instrument as a whole craps out down at e, sounds best somewhere close to f#); kept them on as long as I could but my touch was not reliable enough to keep the sound clean over the long haul. On the plus side, very homogeneous sound- no chantarelle as prima donna of the strings- polyphonic works had a beautiful, even quality. I can imagine the double first would be good in continuo and accompaniment situations. -Dan >An important concern is the long trills, they rattle a bit with the >thin strings. > > >I only really prefer it on bass lute, theorbo & baroque mandolin. >dt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>-- >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Rachel Winheld 820 Colusa Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 510.526.0242 Cell 510.915.4276
