My "bass lute" is only 68cm in string length. I put beefier strings on it (ie, 6th course = ~1.62mm gut), tune it to D and it works fine.
Btw, a 6c A-lute is very nice but if you really want to enjoy a sustaining voice, go long. Sean On Feb 20, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Daniel F Heiman wrote: > The "Lautenweltadressbuch" lists seven lutes attributed to Laux Maler > that have body dimensions available: > > Width Depth Date/Rebuilder > 33.5 cm ca. 1520 > 29.7 ca. 15 before 1550 > 30.6 15.8 Widhalm 1761 > 29.3 ca. 15.8 Edlinger 1705 > 28.9 ca. 13.8 Edlinger 1705 > 33 ca. 1550 > 29.0 14.5 ca. 1550 > > It looks to me like they would have a string length between 60 and 68 > or > 69 cm. That is not huge, but it is probably longer than average for > the > 1520s. The body cross-section is apparently quite close to > semicircular > as a general rule. > > Daniel Heiman > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:25:05 +0100 Michal Gondko > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> But what would the large bass >>> instruments have been like? Do any survive from this period? >> >> None from the (late) fifteenth-century. However, as far as I know, >> surviving >> Maler lutes are bass instruments, the earliest from 1520s (? Someone >> correct >> me if I'm wrong). >> >> M >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> > >
