Edward Martin
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:55:58 -0700
It is not possible, if you would like to have a decent sound. If you use a 0.30 nylon string (if you could find one that small!), it might work, but it would sound terrible!! At 67 cm, the pitch for the treble string should be E, at 440. Even with new materials, we seem to want to try to increase the limits of the pitches for the upper registers for lutes; when we string them appropriately, and at the pitch at which they are intended, the results are much better than pushing those upper limits. ed At 03:31 PM 10/5/2007 -0400, Roland Hayes wrote: >Is it possible to have the first course at g (440) with a string length of >67cm? ( what material?) Roland Hayes Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html