Greetings, I have a Barber and Harris Lesser French Theorbo with 14 strings (7x1 and 7x1) with lengths of 760mm and 1400mm. The 7 diapasons are gut but the other are carbon fiber and silver wrapped. I bought the instrument used and would like to convert to all gut.
I have looked at Arto's string calculator and am stumped as to what I should use for the tension on the strings. The I am not sure what the current set of gut diapasons are either. So a couple of questions: 1. Should I replace all the strings in order to get the correct balance on the instrument? 2. What tension for the strings should I be looking for? 3. Is the best approach to just go to Aquila or Gamut and ask them to figure it out? I would appreciate any guidance I can get. I have read through some of the other discussions but have not come to enough understanding to know how to proceed. Thank you in advance. Regards David -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
