Arle--
I took the liberty of forwarding your help request to the Lute List
to which I subscribe. There are a couple of folks with Eastern European
experience who might be of assistance (I hope!).
Regards,
Leonard Williams
On 10/20/10 6:21 PM, "Arle Lommel" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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