What do lute makers today use for basses on 'late' medieval lutes? Wound
strings? Or huge gut ones. I've had a couple of bad experiences with low
gut strings in the past: they were unplayable except as open strings.
I'm imagining a five-course lute, tuned as Ramos de Pareja says:
G-c-f-a-d', but with the G often tuned down to F'.
Also I've noticed that some modern reconstructions of medieval lutes
(and Crawford Young's gittern) have single bass strings.
Stuart
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