Hi Ed, if changing the general pitch you should use different strings. The overall tension increases very much when changing from 415 to 440 with the same strings on the lute. This could damage your lute.
Best wishes Thomas Am Fre, 2004-01-16 um 17.50 schrieb Ed Durbrow: > >Hi Ed, > > > >In my ignorance I tune my 8-course renaissance lute to 440. Is that not > >correct, or could you recommend a better tuning? I tune my guitar to > >435, as it > >sound fuller and sweeter than at 440. Any advice would be most welcome, > > Tom, > I tune my Ren instruments at 440 too. It seems most people tune their > Baroque lutes low. This is as I suspected. I would also suspect that > most people tune their Ren lutes at about 440. > > The question popped into my mind because I'm doing a couple of > concerts in a few weeks on Ren lute with violin and gamba. We are > going to play some original stuff too and I thought of a piece that > would work well in Dm on my Baroque lute but I didn't think the other > guys would be too keen on playing in C# minor! I'm still trying to > think of a solution. I'm just flat out afraid to tune all the strings > up a semi-tone on the B lute. That problem didn't phase the gambist > in the slightest, he just immediately cranked those babies up to 440 > when he found out that's where we play. > Cheers, -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
