>Bottom line, I plan to change to unison stringing on the 5th course, but >are there circumstances where people prefer the octave? > >DS
Certainly. Much of the really old stuff, like Dalza, requires it. There are melodies where the tune disappears from the top strings and clearly uses the fifth string octave to fill it in. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
