"Martyn Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I suspect you're using single gut frets: try the (historically preferred) > double frets. The first fret takes most of the wear whilst the second > provides a much longer lasting cut-off point. > > MH
I'd love to red some recommended diamtres for double frets. My experience has been so far that there was buzzing all the time Mathias > --- On Thu, 8/5/08, Bruno Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Bruno Correia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [LUTE] Frets > > To: "Lute List" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, 8 May, 2008, 6:47 PM > > 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
