What I do: - find a piece of insulated electricity cable of the right tastini thickness (the individual wires within a telephone cable are about right, if you can find the old-fashioned stiff ones) - remove the copper core - cut to appropriate length for tastini - insert nylon/carbon/gut string/fishing line/fret. This has to be the same thickness of the copper core just removed and thin enough not to be a buzzing bother. - tie the whole thing as a fret
Now you'll have movable tastini. Actually, I put several 'one string' size tastini on my thin fret, and move them from the back of the neck to the fingerboard if needed. If not in use I slide the whole fret against the first fret, so it's not a bother. On my 8-course it works very well for many years now. On my theorbo I had to remove it when I changed the diameters of the frets, but I found on the fingerboard of my theorbo (_very_ smooth letterwood) I can glue a fret-made tastini with painters' tape. It doesn't leave sticky spots and can be removed very easily. (This week it has to be mean-tone for a recording and equal temperament, or whatever the organ is tuned in, for a concert.) A friend of mine uses little ebony wedges he puts under the fret at the desired string. I tried, but it didn't work for me. David ***************************************** David van Ooijen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/ ***************************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Shoskes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:39 PM Subject: Tastini attachment > For those of you who are not "well tempered", how do most people afix > their tastini to their Ren lutes? I have been using a piece of cut > scotch tape which holds a piece of fret gut in place. Over time however > the tape begins to come loose and I start to get buzzing from the 3rd > course. Of course this just happened today and I have a rehearsal > tomorrow for 2 concerts later in the week. > > Have others found a more durable and safe solution? > > Thanks > > Danny > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
