*Pssst* Most modern guitars use a Hauser-like scale around 65 cm. The last generation following in Segovia's shadow favored a Ramirez-like 66 cm. Some whacky experiments of that era (Kasha/Schneider, e.g.) even dabbled in 67 cm (some others even greater) as a standard scale length.
That said, in the 19th c., 64 cm was pretty common to guitars in many parts of Europe, and as little as 60 cm was common in Germanic places and the US. Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Edward Mast > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:59 PM > To: LuteNet list > Subject: [LUTE] Renaissance lute & string length > > The more I read about the lute during the 16th century, the more it seems > to me that the norm for string length then was closer to 65 cm than the 60 > cm which seems more favored and common today. Are we (myself included) - > who choose the shorter mensur - wimps? If classical guitarists of all > shapes and sizes can manage a 64 cm mensur, should we lutenists not be > able to do likewise? Just wondering . . . > -Ned > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
