Dear Miles-
thanks, I don ´t know why I didn ´t think of that! It is a good idea.
It ´ll sure be a lot of experimenting in the beginning to find
the "perfect" setup for this instrument, but I ´m so eager to try it
out!
Magnus
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Miles Dempster
<[1]miles.demps...@gmail.com> wrote:
If I were to string-up Magnus' double-strung diapasons, I wouldn't
bother with octaves on the 7th (and probably 8th) course. At that
length (130cm) and pitch they will sound bright enough. - just
string them in unisons.
Miles
> On Dec 12, 2017, at 8:21 AM, Martin Shepherd
<[2]mar...@luteshop.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Sorry I didn't make myself clear.
>
> When thinking about English theorbo, I was thinking about the
viability of the lowest basses (at say 130cm). On a typical swan-neck
lute, the lowest course would be tuned to AA at a likely pitch of
around a'=392 and be perhaps 99cm long, so this might be a better
comparison. This comparison suggests that the 130cm bass on the
theorbo would be fine.
>
> The other issue is whether the 7th course octave is too thin to be
viable (I can imagine a diameter of about .70mm for the low octave, but
that implies .35mm for the high octave). I've temporarily lost my
string calculator, but Martyn Hodgson's estimate of .34mm seems
reasonable. But .34mm is at least 20% thinner than the smallest
diameter that we think the Old Ones could have made (we could be wrong
about this, but even if such a string could be made it is hard to
imagine it being any use for anything, as Matthew says).
>
> So it seems to me that Magnus' potential problem is how to string the
upper octaves of the 7th (and also probably 8th) course.
>
> Martin
>
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