For what it's worth I have been using a doubled first course on an eight course Lute for almost thirty years. It produces a beautiful sound and I recomened it to anyone. I can tell you what the major draw back is. Understand that I do not use Gut, so perhaps that might rule me out of the argument, but when one of the members of the doubled first starts going false the effects are really noticeable. I have had good luck in switching the strings around bridge to peg-wise and this works pretty well. But I suspect that it is this problem that percipitated the historical acceptance of the single first course.
Vance Wood. ----- Original Message ----- From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:51 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: double fisrst course > > David, please tell us how it works out for you - I think we may be > > missing something if we don't at least try it. > > I think so. I was walking in the Cité de la Musique among all those > Sellasses with double firsts, when my new archlute began to take shape in my > head. At least I should give it a try. > > David > > > ************************************ > David van Ooijen > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Http://www.davidvanooijen.nl > ************************************ > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
