Bruno- Is this the first time you have ever used non-overspun basses?
That may explain your problem rather than the loaded CD string
specifically. It's a totally different feel, whether the thick basses
are actual gut of one sort or another or a synthetic that mimics a gut
bass string. (I have used plain high twist, loaded, catlines, Gamut
"Pistoys", Gimp, and Savarez KF.) All fret more or less the same and
can work with their octave strings ; assuming trueness proper tension,
matching tension to the octave, and of course proper action/neck/fret.
Too high action (either nut or bridge- neck angle) or too thick frets
can all affect this- e.g., very thick frets- (mostly we fret thicker &
single, not the same as historically done) -and too much finger pressure
will distort the intonation- obviously the diff. diameter strings will
respond differently.
Dan
On 2/28/2017 10:31 AM, Arto Wikla wrote:
Hi Bruno
No problems on my archlute's 6th and 7th. CDs and NNG octaves.
Arto
On 28/02/17 19:56, Bruno Cognyl-Fournier wrote:
Dear Collective wisdom,
I have been tuning my 5 and 6th course in octaves for years, with
wound
strings and gut or nylgut.
recently I bought the CD loaded strings from Mimmo and am slowly
getting used to them. I have thus replaced the fundamental with CD
loaded, while keeping my octave strings in gut or nylgut, this on two
different lutes.
I have noticed that the octaves are horribly out of tune as I go
up the
neck, especially by the time you get to the 7th fret. I realize I
rarely have to play up there, but it bothers me. Am trying to
figure
out what the problem is.. would it be a mismatch of tension? or would
it be the Loaded CD strings, that as some of you have probably
found to
be very elastic. I have never had this issue with wound string/gut
combinations.
I will be testing each string individually to check which one goes
out
of tune as you move up the scale, but I suspect it is the Loaded
string
that is giving me the problem.
any comments?
Bruno
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