They are not dedicated to lute- they simply make BY FAR the strongest, most durable treble strings I have ever used - in my case, a pair of .42 mm (perfectly true and in tune with each other) that I put on my vihuela, a close copy of the Chambure artifact by Harris & Barber. Got them in June, and only this past week is one of them beginning to shred. That is the only string I get for the lute from them; as they are expensive. I did get three strings for my bass viol, very good on that instrument too.
I imagine that they would be useful for courses all the way down to the 4th & octaves, but the expense does not justify it- and for sound, those durable trebles are not quite as sweet as the more delicate strings. No free lunch! -Anyway, I have no issues or complaints about courses from the second on down that I get from the dedicated lute string specialists. Except the ungodly price of Mimmo's current line up of loaded strings; but the trouble it takes him to make one they are by no means overpriced. As I told Ed Martin, check the Universale home page carefully for the sentence that says they can indeed make strings as thin as 0.36 mm. That's thin. -Dan > I checked Universale's website, do they have lute strings? I saw > strings only for bowed instruments... > > > > > > -- > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Rachel Winheld 820 Colusa Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel 510.526.0242 Cell 510.915.4276
