[LUTE] Basses and octaves again

2017-04-06 Thread Leonard Williams
I've suffered for some time with the tuning discrepancy between my 6th course G and its octave. Using 1.40 Pistoy with 0.70 treble gut, they were out by the third fret! Tried 0.725 on the octave—no help. Finally, after attempting out-of-tune tuning compromises, I tried a used 4th course

[LUTE] basses in octaves

2017-02-28 Thread Bruno Cognyl-Fournier
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