[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/ loaded/Demi-filé

2008-06-08 Thread Martyn Hodgson
gt; this was made considered the density of a low twist > gut (that > > unstretched at > > all). He made new calculations considering the only > alternative to the > > loading of a gut that is stretchable and less dens > roped string. > > This is why >

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [ LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/loaded/Demi-filé

2008-06-06 Thread Jarosław Lipski
TED] Sent: 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 cour

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/loaded / Demi-filé

2008-06-05 Thread damian dlugolecki
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 tr

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/ loaded/Demi-filé

2008-06-02 Thread Martyn Hodgson
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 but