: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double
headed
12c/loaded/Demi-filé
I don't know where Mimmo gets the tension of 0.9 -
1.0Kg from, but
as an
example: take a Dm tuned lute at 68cm (with top course
f' tuned as
reasonably high as it will go without excessive
breakages allows a
pitch
: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:45 PM
To: 'Lute'; Jarosław Lipski
Subject: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed
12c/loaded/Demi-filé
I don't know where Mimmo gets the tension of 0.9 - 1.0Kg from, but as an
example: take a Dm tuned lute at 68cm (with top course f' tuned as
reasonably
No, no, no. This is complete and utter nonsense without any
factual basis.
I am sorry to be so blunt, but I will not accomodate this kind
of fantasy
science.
DD
What seems to me more feasible, as regards to the increase
of the density of the gut string, is that some substances
that were
If significantly lower string tensions are employed than those commonly used
nowadays, a plain gut high twist bass can sound fine without requiring loaded
strings (which may, or may not, have existed). Of course one needs to pluck
much closer to the bridge than is the common modern fashion
