I think you will be surprised at how you will like the 5 th course in
octaves. Good luck!
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On Nov 23, 2019, at 12:34 PM, Jurgen Frenz
<[email protected]> wrote:

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
<[email protected]> 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][email protected]> 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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