Hello Stuart, I have one lute strung with gut, and one with synthetic (both 'G', 60 cm mensur). On the synthetic I use a Pyramid 0,475 string for the first course (a New Nylgut string tended to break). Second, third and fourth courses are New Nylgut (sorry, I don't have the gauges at hand). The fifth course is KFG, which I think is nylon/carbon synthetic. The sixth through eighth are copper wound fundamentals with New Nylgut octaves. For me, I find this the best synthetic solution.
Good luck, Ned On Jun 19, 2012, at 4:02 PM, WALSH STUART wrote: > I haven't changed the strings on my lute in a long time and I need to > replace them. I can't remember the details of the ones I have on now. > Gut is too expensive but any advice for anything else would be very > welcome. Typical G lute, A440, string length 60cms. > Thanks > Stuart > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
