[LUTE] Stringing Question (German Lute)

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

[LUTE] Re: Lute Stringing

Hello Mimmo, YES, I'm sold. When I have the time to crunch all the numbers (tensions & all other relevant specifications together) I will be ordering a bunch. Or just send me what's on your lute. Or send the whole lute; you won't have unstring & restring, and I will tune it up for you too! :-P

[LUTE] Lute Stringing

> Hello to anyone > I have made this video showing the last version of ther CD basses. > > [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrNCEOfPVM > > there is a brief text in the video explaining the difference than the > first CD's types. > In the video I am a bit tired after this very str

[LUTE] Stringing for baroque lute.

As an experiment, I put extremely light strings on my baroque lute. This made the tone very difficult to control. This is pretty good practice, but in a month or two I need to venture out of the house with the lute. So it's string buying time. Can someone give me a Savarez PUL number for the

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

Martyn --- On Mon, 21/1/13, Martin Shepherd [1] wrote: From: Martin Shepherd [2] Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing? To: [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 21 January, 2013, 12:00 Dear Martyn and all, I think the no

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

pherd Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing? To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 21 January, 2013, 13:07 Dear Martyn, I never said it was easy! It's not a question of "avoiding playing all the upper octaves" but a ques

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

t the 5th and 6th courses were octave strung. Monica - Original Message - From: "Martin Shepherd" To: Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 12:00 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing? Dear Martyn and all, I think the notion that the vihuela was st

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

musical one, btw. " And the rest of it was Martin's email Stuart --- On Mon, 21/1/13, G_abramovic wrote: From: G_abramovic Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing? To: "Martin Shepherd" , lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 21 January,

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

t the 4th, 5th and 6th course on a lute with octaves and avoid playing all the upper octaves, as it is not to. If so, I take my hat of to you. regards, Martyn --- On Mon, 21/1/13, Martin Shepherd [1] wrote: From: Martin Shepherd [2] Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela strin

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

Dear G Abramovic, I'd love to read what you wrote but all I got was this below! Is it Wayne's system or what? regards Martyn Hodgson --- On Mon, 21/1/13, G_abramovic wrote: From: G_abramovic Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute)

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

s, Martyn --- On Mon, 21/1/13, Martin Shepherd wrote: From: Martin Shepherd Subject: [LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing? To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Monday, 21 January, 2013, 12:00 Dear Martyn and all, I think the notion that the vih

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

Covarrubias?  I think that was the source, I might be wrong.  A non musical one, btw. Enviado de Samsung Mobile Martin Shepherd escribió:Dear Martyn and all,I think the notion that the vihuela was strung in unisons is based on a source (which one, anyone?) which contras

[LUTE] Re: Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

Dear Martyn and all, I think the notion that the vihuela was strung in unisons is based on a source (which one, anyone?) which contrasts the vihuela with the "Flemish vihuela" i.e. the lute. Can someone help with the reference? As far as I know there is no documentary evidence on the unison/

[LUTE] Vihuela stringing - was 6c (lute) stringing?

Dear Martin, You may recall that quite some years ago it was generally accepted that the vihuela (but not the viola) was strung in unison - I believe this was a misreading of an early source and was explained through the great wealth of Spain in the periof whereby such expensive st

[LUTE] stringing of a "wandervogellaute"

hello all, I get a present from member of our church choir: a 6-string "wandervogelgitarre" 63cm mensur. It is the instrument of her father (born in 1904). so its about 90 years old. not very pretty but corpus and soundboard without cracks and with intact mechanics. the instrument is stringed wi

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: 13-course lute stringing

These are the results for the fretboard strings with Paul Beier's string calculator. "Gut" is the column to look for as nylgut is by and large of the same charactersitics as gut. May I recommend that you round down the decimal places, e. g. 0.420 equals 0.4, 0.499 equals 0.5 and so on because dif

[LUTE] Stringing, was: Dilettantism

"Anthony Hind" schrieb: > I have come to adopt the equal tension, loaded string hypothesis, That would refer to the basses IIRC, viz. thin bass strings of gradually increasing length? > It is clear that if we have a scale of sound 1) according to the > position ; near the rose, mid position, n

[LUTE] Stringing

As far as I can see, Louis Pernot has the strings of his lute strung in the normal order, i.e. with the bass of each course nearer the ceiling. However, the lowest courses are spaced at the nut in such a way that the gap between the strings of each course is greater than the gap between courses. T

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

Dear all, On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, David Rastall wrote: > I string my 66 cm Venere 10-course in G, using a chanterelle of 0425 > Pyramid nylon. I've never broken a chanterrelle yet. It works > fine. It sounds just as good in G, with all the string gauges > appropriately lighter than for F t

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

> My "flat-back" is 63.5 cm VL, and I tune it to G. But there is no > musical > string that will hold that at that length. Another beautiful theory destroyed by ugly facts. We have two 65 cm ten course lutes (almost identical) and they are often kept at G (A440) with either nylon or nylgut t

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

I beg to differ with you guys: On Jan 20, 2006, at 4:16 AM, Jon Murphy wrote: >> The basic answer is that 63cm is too long to comfortably tune to G at >> modern pitch A440. >> > > ...there is no musical > string that will hold that at that length. I string my 66 cm Venere 10-course in G, using a

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

the > nut, and slide along the frets to match to get them about right. > Nick > > -Original Message- > From: Steve Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 January 2006 20:43 > To: List - Lute > Subject: [LUTE] Question on Lute stringing > > Hi Lute Loverz,

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

Thanks to everyone for their responses! I've taken your advice and emailed "Catline" Henricksen to arrange for a few sets of strings. The La Bella strings are now safely loose on my lute and I'll wait until getting new ones from Chris to resume playing it. I would also like to remark that it wa

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

slip under the strings to the nut, and slide along the frets to match to get them about right. Nick -Original Message- From: Steve Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 January 2006 20:43 To: List - Lute Subject: [LUTE] Question on Lute stringing Hi Lute Loverz, I'm new to the

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

Hi Steve, the diameter for the strings should be somewhere near the following example (gut or nylgut on 1st will probably break very soon): Hope that helps. Benjamin results for Lute (10 c.) a'=440Hz 63cm String Note Length Tension Gut Nylon Carbon KFNylgut 1stg'63 3,7

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

Hi Steve, on Monday 16 January 2006 22:43, you wrote: > I'm new to the lute email list and need some help. Welcome to the List! > It was strung with nylon for 1st, 2nd and 3rd courses, unison wound > strings for the 4th and 5th courses, and nylon octaves + wound > strings for the 7th and 8th

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

if it is still there you should be able to find it. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: "James A Stimson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "List - Lute" Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:54 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Qu

[LUTE] Re: Question on Lute stringing

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[LUTE] stringing history

Sandy Hackney wrote: > The debate over gut strings versus more modern ones is very old - it was > just as impassioned in the early 70s as now with little change. Could someone sketch a little history of lute stringing by the well known recording lutenists? Was there a period when everyon

[LUTE] Re: barto lute stringing

Last summer in Cleveland, Bob Barto did some experimenting with gut; he played my 13 course Burkholtzer in all gut (bass rider on 12 & 13) and he likes it, but I think, as in the case of most touring professionals, he is concerned about tuning problems, so he probably sticks with what works for

RE: [LUTE] barto lute stringing

--Original Message- From: Roman Turovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:57 AM To: BAROQUE-LUTE Subject: Fw: [LUTE] barto lute stringing - Original Message - From: "Taco Walstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lutelist" Sent: Frida

[LUTE] Re: barto lute stringing

Hi Taco, I am working on such problem since few years. I am quite sure that, at the Weiss' time, basses were open wound on gut cores. No plain gut at all: simply it do not work. I have made some samples of such open wound strings and I must say that they are very interesting. There are a lot of

Fw: [LUTE] barto lute stringing

- Original Message - From: "Taco Walstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lutelist" Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 09:42 Subject: [LUTE] barto lute stringing > Listening to a recordings of Weiss and Hagen by Roberto Barto I have been > wondering several times

[LUTE] barto lute stringing

Listening to a recordings of Weiss and Hagen by Roberto Barto I have been wondering several times what kind of strings were on his lute. Sometimes it sounds like gut sometimes it's quite "un" -gut. The difference is very clear if you listen for example to recordings by Toyohikoh Satoh who uses l