Dear Lutists, Returning to the issue of frets, are all the fret-gut availlable today of the same quality? I'm probably buying from Aquila (as I have been doing lately) but they wear out very fast.
Also, for an 8 course instrument in g, what would be the avarage gauge for the first fret? I use 1 mm, then should I go down to 0.9, 0.8, 0.7 and follow until the last one with 0.7? It seems that the bigger frets give some falsiness to the tunning (1st and 2nd), because if I press the string a little harder the pich goes up, and the octaves present some problems too. This happens basically on the 1st and 2ns frets. Any advice? Thanks. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
