Listers--
Can anyone give Arle Lommel (from the Hurdy-Gurdy list) some advice
on this subject?
Thanks and regards,
Leonard Williams
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From: Arle Lommel <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:21:16 -0400
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HG-new] Off topic on string selection
Hi all, this is off topic, but maybe someone here can help me with a
stringing question.
I am retrofitting a cobza (Romanian lute) that needs some work to repair a
considerable amount of wear and some bad "improvements" made to it in the
past (e.g., replacing tapered pegs with cheap guitar tuners). I would like
to replace the current, narrow range tuning with mandola tuning
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandola), which is essentially viola tuning. I
would also like to use octave tuning since the instrument is set up with
chorus tuning.
The scale length is 448 mm, but due to a lute-style peg head, strings must
be at least 500 mm.
Any suggestion for how I would determine the appropriate strings? There are
a lot of variables I don't know, like tension, that make it difficult to use
a string gauge calculator.
-Arle
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