All, With the conversation below in mind, can anyone suggest a good book or other source that can assist with some of the DIY-elements of playing the lute? I'm probably getting my luthier to do things that I ought to be able to do myself. Where should we go to teach ourselves how to do this without destroying our instrument during the learning? Graham Freeman
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Sean Smith <[1][email protected]> wrote: 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][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 __________________________________________________________________ Voeg eenvoudig je Hyves vrienden toe aan je [1]Hotmail en Messenger. -- References 1. [3][3]http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/windowslive/Views/product detail .aspx?product=MessengerHyves&WT.mc_id=msn3 To get on or off this list see list information at [4][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [5]http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/links/index.html 2. [6]http://www.HarborFreight.com/ 3. [7]http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/windowslive/Views/productdetail .aspx?product=MessengerHyves&WT.mc_id=msn3 4. [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Dr. Graham Freeman Ph. D Musicology University of Toronto [9][email protected] -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.HarborFreight.com/ 3. http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/windowslive/Views/productdetail 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. http://www.cittern.theaterofmusic.com/links/index.html 6. http://www.HarborFreight.com/ 7. http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/windowslive/Views/productdetail.aspx?product=MessengerHyves&WT.mc_id=msn3 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. mailto:[email protected]
