Please ignore this message. I've just used an ordinary nylon lute string and tuned it up to c. Well, it hasn't snapped after 10 minutes.
- - - - - - - - - - - - > I've asked for advice before but I'm really stuck now. > > I've got a small home-made instrument with a string length of 43 cms > (actually the instrument has a floating bridge). I need to have the top > string to c - equivalent to > the fifth fret of a lute on the top course of the lute.. > > The advice I got last time I asked was to use an ordinary lute string > (for an instrument with c.60cms string length) for the chanterelle. But > this isn't working at all. I've tried several top-course lute strings. > They snap. It's obvious the string is just being stretched far too much > beyond 'a'. > > I may, of course have got confused about things and I may be doing > something wrong. > > So: anyone who has a small lute or a gittern. What diameter string do > you use for the top course? > > Stuart > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
