I've had a few of these. Most came to me with gut strings on them
somewhere on the instrument. Others a combination of gut, nylon, and
typical silver wound on nylon filament for at least the lower two
courses. None came with metal. Some had a pin bridge, some with a
tie-on style
Thank you!
This is very helpful, especially coming from you! I recently bought "The
Lute in Europe 2" and I'm very awestruck by the book :)
So I'm going to use my good old fishing wire (1150 kg/m³). What tension
would you recommend?
Am 30.11.2017 um 21:21 schrieb Joachim Lüdtke:
Gut –
The majority of these German lutes were built before WW II, when nylon hadn't
yet been invented. The string material of choice was gut. I once pulled string
ends and paper rags out of a lute, which had fallen inside when the strings
broke. All of the string ends were gut.
Mathias
When Mel Wong rebuilt my 50- year-old (at least) Wandervogl lute (it
sounds identical to yours except the scalloped frets) he mentioned the
top had probably needed telephone wires to activate the top. Previously
it had always been strung in nylon and wound and was pretty quiet.
Merci, Capitaine Evidence :)
Am 30.11.2017 um 20:35 schrieb Bruno Cognyl-Fournier:
HI Tristan
Your description of the lute appears to be one of those 19th - early
20th century German lutes which were used as Folklore instruments and
would have been using most likely wound strings, no
Metal will put more preasure on an already weakened and deteriorating
German old glute. My advice is nylon, fishing line, gut, or other low
tension options. Speak to Mathias Rösel, he has one.
I believe, these were originally stringed with metal strings. But
though loosing some
Jeff,
If you have access to the Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and
Universities, U.S. and Canada (any large research institution should
have the 2017 edition), there are 37 teachers of lute in U.S./Canadian
colleges. A little too much for me to summarize, but if you have a
Hi there,
I'm currently repairing my old German Lute (6x1, 62cm), previously
decorative only. Some ribs have come apart. I managed one connection
already.
I noticed that it has very thin ribs (about 1-1.5mm), however the
soundboard is quite thick judging at the rose (about 4-5mm).
There is
Hi Jeff,
There is a program that seems to be going very well at Oklahoma City
University. The lute teacher is Kyle Patterson and some of his students
are wonderful players (Joe Harris and Carey Morrow). Cathy Liddell
teaches at Boston University.
Nancy
Hi, folks—
I’m looking for
Hi, folksâ
Iâm looking for information on undergrad music programs in the US that
feature or focus on Early Music and include the lute. I know, of course, of the
usual suspects of Indiana, Peabody and Eastman but Iâm wondering about other
less prestigious schools.
Iâd be interested,
A few places are still available in February in Bochum/Germany. Sorry
for the language!
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Liebe Lautenfreunde,
am erstem Februar-Wochenende (02.-04.02.18) findet im Bochumer Süden
ein Meisterkurs für Laute (bzw. andere historische Zupfinstrumente und
Kammermusik) mit
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