On 07/29/2011 01:01 AM, Hector wrote:
Dear all,
A quick question. Any experience with the New Nylgut NNG and NGE as basses on a
85cm theorbo?
I'm just thinking of stinging the short neck all with Nylgut. Currently I have
Nylgut in the
a-e-b-g and d (from the top), and I just wonder if
Hi Hector,
Good to meet you again at Gijon - I hope you had a pleasant trip home.
You could also try Savarez KF strings. They're more dense than gut, so
you would need KF95A for the 6th course and KF105A for the 7th. They
work well on renaissance lute, should work fine on 85cm!
Best
Hi Caius,
I absolutely agree with David - there is nothing better than a gut
strung theorbo and it's much easier to keep under control than a gut
strung lute. Also, unless you have an enormous instrument, the highest
strings will not be as thin as they get on a lute, so there will
Hello,
I would kindly suggest to all our customers not to confuse internal
chat of lute society with pretty private questions concerning customer
and company.
The statement What has happend with Aquilla? could cause false
allarms to guys and to our customers.
For this
On 19 December 2010 10:01, hera caius caiush2...@yahoo.com wrote:
As I played theorbo really a lot this months, I started to wonder about
..
Can anyone give me some ideas what kind of strings I can try (with
sound closer to gut),
Sorry to be stating the obvious, but have you thought
If the bass sounds too long, dampen the string.
Mersenne gives I think 20 seconds for the duration of the tone.
So you can time it and see :)
dt
At 01:01 AM 12/19/2010, you wrote:
Hello lutenists,
As I played theorbo really a lot this months, I started to wonder about
the sound of
Nigel
I agree with Ed, it takes a few months for Pistoy an Venice to
come up/down to their final thickness. The more supple a string, the
more it will finally stretch and end up slightly thinner.
The surface texture will also change slightly over that period, so
that such a string
Loaded or Crimped will give you more core to the sound, less tubby,
but part of it is the way the instrument is built,
part of it is that those low notes using historical strings sound less.
Historical strings get softer as they go lower; modern strings get louder.
Of course the string length
Nigel,
That is interesting, that a 1.24 and 1.12 string seem too thick, as on my
much shorter baroque lute, 13 course with a bass rider, I use a 2.0 for the
13th course! Perhaps you are unaccustomed with the use of gut, and it
sounds tubby to your ear. Give it 10 days to 2 weeks. After the
