Paul Beier's tool is indeed a very useful one ! I recommend it too. You can download it from there: http://www.musico.it/lute_software/index.html
Best, Jean-Marie -------------- >Dear Hubert, > >I think there is some confusion here. The PUL number (poids par unité de >longueur) is given by Savarez for its overwound strings so as to be able to >calculate tensions and varies from one type of overwound string to another. It >is not an indication per se of light or heavy tensions but enables you to >determine a particular tension for a specific course. >Savarez used to supply a string calculator in the form of an Excel spreadsheet >but this is completely out of date and full of bugs. I tried phoning them this >morning but the technician won't be in until this afternoon. I shall ring back >then and keep you posted. >In the meantime why don't you use Paul Beier's calculator, that has densities >for Savarez strings? >What type of string do you wish to use for the 9th fundamental? >Best >Matthew > > >> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:00, Herbert Ward <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> As an experiment, I put extremely light strings on my baroque lute. >> This made the tone very difficult to control. This is pretty good >> practice, but in a month or two I need to venture out of the house >> with the lute. >> >> So it's string buying time. >> >> Can someone give me a Savarez PUL number for the fundamental of the >> 9th course (E) at A=415 with a 68.5 cm string length? Also helpful >> would be an indication of whether the PUL corresponds to heavy, medium, >> or light stringing. >> >> Google searches gave nothing useful. >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
