A copy of "Historic Lute Construction" by Robert Lundberg (ISBN 0-9626447-4-9)
might help. I understand he was the foremost authority on lute construction
during the end of his life. He seems to prefer both nylon and gut and uses both
Pyramid and La Bella strings.
Chris, if you don't yet have a copy of the book you NEED it. Trust me.
Scott
> Hi all, this is off topic, but maybe someone here can help me with
> a stringing question.
>
> I am retrofitting a cobza (Romanian lute) that needs some work to
> repair a considerable amount of wear and some bad "improvements"
> made to it in the past (e.g., replacing tapered pegs with cheap
> guitar tuners). I would like to replace the current, narrow range
> tuning with mandola tuning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandola),
> which is essentially viola tuning. I would also like to use octave
> tuning since the instrument is set up with chorus tuning.
>
> The scale length is 448 mm, but due to a lute-style peg head,
> strings must be at least 500 mm.
>
> Any suggestion for how I would determine the appropriate strings?
> There are a lot of variables I don't know, like tension, that make
> it difficult to use a string gauge calculator.
>
> -Arle
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