Dear Wim,
At the bottom of [1]this page you'll find a handful of string
calculators. They aren't difficult to use. As you continue down the
garden path that is the lute world you'll find yourself changing frets,
measuring lengths and diameters, tying knots, playing with matches,
knives and clippers and generally slipping into a DIY culture. It's
just the way it is. You can pick up digital calipers in the US for
~$10(!) from [2]www.HarborFreight.com and every luter should have one
near his string box.
Both strings and their surrounding conversation are, in turns,
fascinating, boring, colorful, off-putting, helpful, misleading (in the
sense of useful for some; less for others), historic, almost historic,
historic looking, maybe historic sounding, modern, "whatever", and lots
of flavors in between depending on period, instrument, experiance,
purpose, budget and whim (pun intended :^). Spend a couple of hours in
the archives --you'll see. I'm sure plenty of opinions and contentions
arose in the old days too so, in that sense, we are being fairly
historic and maybe as, characteristically, nerdly. Eventually you'll
realize it's not a bug but a feature.
Have fun and good luck,
Sean
On Jul 3, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Wim Loos wrote:
Dear all,
My renaissance 8-course lute, string lenghts 615 mm,pitch a=415 Hz
need
new strings. It is tuned g'g' d'd' aa ff cc Gg Ff Dd I will try
Nylgut, can anybody advise me wich plain/wounded strings I shoud buy.
Present I use nylon strings.
Thanks in Advance,
Wim Loos
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