>I concur, Dr Winheld. I would love to keep them all in gut but
reaching for the instrument I use least or most and finding another
broken or barely >limping along string compels me to fall into the
plastic alternative. The last major gut purchase nearly started divorce
proceedings.
On Jan 20, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Dan Winheld wrote:
One or more of the great early German pedagogs (H.Neusidler, Gerle,
Judenkoenig) was/were absolutely explicit on this: 1st course gauge for 4th
course 8ve, 2nd for 5th, and 3rd for 6th. On my early style 6 course lute this
works just fine. With t
The use of 8ves on courses 4 - 6 from late 15th to at least mid-16th
cent. on lutes and Italian vihuelas/violas is widely confirmed by enough
authoritative sources. One or more of the great early German pedagogs
(H.Neusidler, Gerle, Judenkoenig) was/were absolutely explicit on this:
1st course
Bill,
I only have 6c lutes (D, E, G and d) and a renaissance guitar and they are all
strung w/ octaves on 4th through 6th courses. The case could be made that the
descant would comfortably survive unisons on the 4th but I like the consistancy
to my ear of the same architecture on all of them.
Hi All,
I agree with Sam on three points: I've never found it "necessary" to
have an octave on the 4th course, it's difficult to get a unison 5th to
work well (in gut), and unison 6th I've never liked. The only person to
mention unison 6th is Dowland in 1610, and he's talking about his 9c
lu
