I've been reading the thread about bending strings about frets with interest. But my current problem is simpler. I have a lute with action that is too high. Using the test David van Edwards gives in his little Care of the Lute booklet, it seems that the action is just too high at the nut. I believe that one of the remedies for this is to cut the grooves in the nut a little deeper, so that the place the string starts from is simply lower. I don't have much experience with that and I'm a little hesitant to make a change that might ruin the nut. I believe I've also heard or read that another possible help is to change the size of the fret gut to make the frets taller. So my questions are these. Are those two ideas reasonable things to try for a lute player not much used to maintenance tasks? Which would be better to try first? Any other advice? Suzanne --
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