Thanks all for the most useful tips. I had feared as much, that guitar
strings wouldn't do the trick. Being someone who's got 10 left thumbs when it comes
to practical matters, I hate anything fiddly like putting on new strings, and
had just hoped there might be a way of getting the strings to
Tony has it down cold, a string is a string is a string. But guitar strings
are packaged according to the course (pitch) and are designed for a
particular tension (the guitar wants a higher N than the lute, only for the
sound) at the standard length of a guitar. If you have a guitar of a
different
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, James A Stimson wrote:
Proper diameters and more limp are two sides of the same coin. Guitars
...
This seems utterly obvious. Am I missing something here? Maybe some of the
smart guys on the list can help us out here.
Of course thicker strings are stiffer. In fact (for
Pergaps it may be generally true that a thicker string is stiffer, this is
not in each instance. For example, with some different ways of twisting
gut, it is possible to make a thicker string that is more flexible than its
thinner counterpart.
This is an important factor, as not all gut
, November 29, 2003 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Guitar strings on a lute.
I sit corrected Stewart, but how did you count them?
I guess I am reluctant to do my pontifications without a caveat
saying that
I don't know the lute. My lady says ask Murphy the time and he'll
tell you
how to build a watch. I am
Sorry to but in, but I've just seen this message, though being new to the
circle missed the start of the conversation. Is it in fact possible to use guitar
strings on a lute, at least as far as the higher strings are concerned (the
upper G-string, the two D-strings)? I've wondered about
Mmm... I don't think that such things as guitar strings and lute strings
exist as real entities, but only as marketing packages. Strings are made of
a certain material in different diameters and in different qualities. There
is not only quite a lot of opinion as to what is correct, but quite
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Is it in fact possible to use guitar
strings on a lute, at least as far as the higher strings are concerned (the
upper G-string, the two D-strings)?
These are the ones that definitely wouldn't work, unless your lute is made
out of concrete
I sit corrected Stewart, but how did you count them?
I guess I am reluctant to do my pontifications without a caveat saying that
I don't know the lute. My lady says ask Murphy the time and he'll tell you
how to build a watch. I am an inveterate analyst, even on topics I don't
know.
Best, Jon
G'day Jim,
When local luthier Mel Wong retopped and renecked my old german lutar we
kept the same string length: ~69-70cm and it tunes very nicely to E. By
working w/ a lighter top but keeping the same string length, for some
reason the Wadsworth string calculator suggests the same pitch.
: Guitar strings on a lute.
Hope someone may gain from this, your newbie,
Best, Jon
Why can't one use guitar strings on a lute? Is it merely that they are
not available in the proper diameters? Or do lutes need strings which
are, say, more limp?
Dear Herbert:
Proper diameters and more limp are two sides of the same coin. Guitars
are strung at about 5 kilos of string tension, lutes closer to 3 kilos.
Also, tenor lutes are tuned in G, guitars in E, although their string
lengths are similar.
G'day Jim,
When local luthier Mel Wong
: Guitar strings on a lute.
Dear Herbert:
Proper diameters and more limp are two sides of the same coin.
Guitars
are strung at about 5 kilos of string tension, lutes closer to 3 kilos.
Also, tenor lutes are tuned in G, guitars in E, although their string
lengths are similar. The result
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