[LUTE] Re: Unison C string on 8c lutes

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 10:41:59 -0800 

   Hello Edward,

   thank you very much, I feel encouraged now to "go octaves" all the way
   down from 5th. course.I should consider myself stupid that I hesitated,
   because who is there to judge me apart from myself. I am not competing
   in any academic exercise :-)
   Thank you very  much again, gut is cost-wise prohibitive to me.

   Best regards

   Jurgen

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   On Saturday, November 23, 2019 9:16 PM, Edward Martin
   <edvihuel...@gmail.com> wrote:

   Hello Jurgen,
   I agree that in with 8-course lutes, they do tend to not sound as
   brilliant as with octaves.  Of course, it is a compromise, but on my
   8-course lute, I have octaves on 5,6,7, & 8  and like it very much.
   Whatever brand of strings you try, I think you will like the 5th course
   in octaves, as it brightens up the sound.  I do not see it as confusing
   the voices as you say, but adding to the richness and complexity of the
   sound.  Another thing that could very much improve the sound is to use
   gut.  If you do not want gut, at least consider using gut for octaves.

   On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:19 AM Jurgen Frenz
   <[1]eye-and-ear-cont...@protonmail.com> wrote:

      Hello there,

      I have an 8c lute now since 10 months and from the beginning I'm

      "unhappy" with the sound of the unison C strings on it. I changed
   the

      plain Aquila strings to round-wound Aquilas but to me it sounds
   quite

      the same. What I'm missing is the high frequencies that we have on
   6c

      instruments with the octave string. In my mind I call the current
   sound

      "plastic-y". The maker of the instrument suggested to try out the

      Savarez early music strings but I do not think I would recover high

      frequencies with them.

      Any remedies that you have tried out with success other than "just
   get

      used to it"? An octave string shouldn't be a good idea because it
   would

      confuse voices.

      Hoping for some suggestions,

      Jurgen

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      "Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there."

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