The very best first course of action would be to have a someone with an understanding, to look at the instrument. Basically all the other options should be on hold, until this first one is achieved. This could be the maker, or repair-person (!), or someone who dealt with this situation before, at least a few times (successfully). There might be more or less to the problem, and that needs to be established. The least of all, cutting the grooves should be tried. The more proper way (if all the grooves are properly cut as is ) usually is to file down the bottom of the nut.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:59:39 +0000 angevin...@att.net wrote: > I've been reading the thread about bending strings about frets with > interest. But my current problem is simpler. I have a lute with > action that is too high. Using the test David van Edwards gives in > his little Care of the Lute booklet, it seems that the action is just > too high at the nut. I believe that one of the remedies for this is to > cut the grooves in the nut a little deeper, so that the place the > string starts from is simply lower. I don't have much experience with > that and I'm a little hesitant to make a change that might ruin the > nut. I believe I've also heard or read that another possible help is > to change the size of the fret gut to make the frets taller. > So my questions are these. Are those two ideas reasonable things to > try for a lute player not much used to maintenance tasks? Which would > be better to try first? Any other advice? > Suzanne > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
