Some years ago, I attended a talk on Elizabethan English by a women whose
name I can't recall (IIRC, she was a professor at a university in the
Netherlands). She said that the closest approximation to Elizabethan English
that you could still find was probably in some isolated mountain communities
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Hi Paul,
I have a 10c lute of 66cm scale. The highest I can take it with a
nylon chanterelle (the strongest material) is f# at A440 - and that's
really pushing it. I normally keep it at f. Even at f, with a nylgut
chanterelle, it tends to break quite frequently, which is why I
On 01/01/2013 18:50, stephen arndt wrote:
Dear Friends,
I would like to invite you to visit my recently established web site,
[1]verseandsong.com, where I have available the products of a number of
my leisure time activities. Possibly of interest to this group are my
home
Hi Paul
There is a useful explanation of the breaking limits for strings on the
Aquila website:
http://www.aquilacorde.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=41I
temid=1384lang=en
Look for point 13 - however please note that the discussion is based on the
old Nylgut material - according
I have an 8 string guitar with an A first string at 65cm at 440. The
size of the string is 0.41 and it sounds geat. It has been tuned up to
pitch since 2008. I think it is nylon and I got it off my baroque lute.
--Sterling
From: Din Ghani d...@sardin.co.uk
To: 'Paul Daverman'
I built a 63+ cm. length lute some years back, actually a bastard lute
in that it was Music Maker's flatback. I had the breakage problem with
the chanterelle also - I was pitching to A440 and tuning to G. Musical
nylon would last a few days, nylgut would break almost immediately. I
went to a
