At 10:08 PM 1/22/04, you wrote:
Hi Daniel and David,
Hi Daniel,
One possible reason the string makes that quantum jump is that it may
be sticking in the groove of the nut. A good way to smooth out the
groove is with pencil graphite.
This is a way that works but is looking really bad
Using a wound string to re-define the string mark can leave the same effect
as using a saw, or rough file. Instead of cutting smoothly, it can
'chatter'. Leaving a groove with tiny ridges all the way along, in which
the intended string will 'lock'. The symptom you are trying to remove!
I
I by myself use
an old wound string to polish the string groove. Apply as much as power
you can give. You will realize a moment the string will slide very easy.
The process is done then. You should use different diameters of wound
strings corresponding to size of the groove. Finally you should
Using a wound string to re-define the string mark can leave the same effect
as using a saw, or rough file. Instead of cutting smoothly, it can
'chatter'. Leaving a groove with tiny ridges all the way along, in which
the intended string will 'lock'. The symptom you are trying to remove!
Aha! I
hello,
there is a nice new addition to abc archive: a book for 9 course renaissance
lute containing music by bacheler and johnson (39 pages).
By the way: I saw a few websites who link to the abcarchive with wrong
extension: not select.html but just index.html (or leave it out). Please
update.
Dear Sean and All:
I'd recently heard of using beeswax for gut strings, and in fact just
bought some but haven't applied any yet. Have you used it with gut strings?
They tend to stick a bit more than nylon.
Interesting theory about leaving the groove a little rough. Would this
apply to wound
... not nearly enough is known to make the skill and intuition of a
good builder redundant, ...
This is, more or less, what I meant to imply as a conclusion. Evidently,
I've failed to communicate well. In particular, my aim was to nurture an
appreciation of science, not to discourage its
Dear Taco, You wrote:
dear arthur, I answered a little bit short. Below some more
information. I've the two editions by arnaldo Forni editore. The first
edition is the facsimile of Intavolatura di lauto , milano 1548 together
with Borrono.
Of course, all of the concordances are givcen in
Dear e-friends,
A few days ago a couple of very interesting documents have been found in an
archive in the Netherlands, and I have been sent the images, which I am now
posting BY PERMISSION
at
http://polyhymnion.org/swv/vita2.html
RT
Yes, Jim, I use it w/ gut and nylgut. I don't have any metal strings. I'll
confess that I've never found a solution that doesn't involve at least a
little stickage but I think the beeswax performs at least as well as
pencil lead. I always slack the string a smidge to loosen it if it hasn't
Ummm, the reason that golfballs have lower wind-resistance is that the
dimpled surface creates a turbulent boundary layer. That retards boundary
layer separation better than the laminar boundary layer that would be
created by a smooth surface, which in turn leads to lower wind-resistance
(see
You're right. The wax only provides a viscous element between string and
nut. And of course the turbulence never enters into the lute equation. But
I still hold the nut surface need not be completely polished out when using
beeswax (see my other post on it). Completely polished would probably
Herbert,
I have over forty years experience with computers (met my first one in 1962,
learning to program the IBM 1401 in machine language). (Although I've been
in and out of the business over those years). And some of it has been in
process control real time programming at the machine level,
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