Tom
An earlier poster already suggested your octaves might be higher in
tension than your fundamentals. This was a good guess.
Course 5 you have 28N (2.8kg if you prefer) for your octav and 25N for
your fundamental.
Courses 6 to 8 are around 25N for the octaves and around 20N for the
fundamentals.
All this assuming you have it tuned to 440Hz.
Each to his own, but for a 60cm 8-course I would suggest around 28N for
the basses and around 25/26N for the octaves.
On an 8-coourse with metalwound basses I would not use an octave string
on course 5 and probably not on 6 either.
But again, each to his own and opinions differ.
David
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On 10 October 2013 10:40, Tom <[3]tgw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. Here is the info David asked me to
include:
The strings are about a week old
NNG52 - 8 course lute 5th octave c'
NNG100 - 8 course lute 5th c
NNG68 - 8 course lute 6th octave g
KFG121 - 8 course lute 6th G
NNG76 - 8 course lute 7th octave f
KFG132 - 8 course lute 7th F
NNG88 - 8 course lute 8th octave d
KFG160 - 8 course lute 8th D
As you can see, the srings are either New Nylgut and KFG
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Sincerely,
Tom
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