Hi lutelisters!
So a student of mine picked up a set of La Bella lute strings w octaves and we
strung up her Turkish-made 8-course lute (59cm string length) with them.
Then I noticed something very odd - the higher octaves were far too loose at
the correct pitch as they were flabby and
Hi Edward,
I don't really know this set from La Bella, but you can read some info
about the oud sets made by Pyramid in our blog:
[1]http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/cuerdas-para-oud/
There you can see tuning, gauges and tension for both arabic and
turkish setups. Hope that helps
On 24 Apr, 2014, at 5:51 PM, David Morales dmorale...@cuerdaspulsadas.com
wrote:
Hi Edward,
I don't really know this set from La Bella, but you can read some info about
the oud sets made by Pyramid in our blog:
http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/cuerdas-para-oud/
There you can see
Dear Edward,
I ordered some La Bella strings a few years back and their calculations were
way off. I was able to do my own for the nylon strings by measuring the
diameter but it was really hit and miss for the copper-wound strings as I
didn't have any basis for calculation. The strings they
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What pitch were you tuning the Oud at? Turkish Ouds are not tuned at the
same pitch as North African Ouds.. they are tuned higher..
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On 2014-04-24, 6:13 AM, Matthew Daillie wrote:
I ordered some La Bella strings a few years back and their
calculations were way off. I was able to do my own for the nylon
strings by measuring the diameter but it was really hit and miss for
the copper-wound strings as I didn't have any basis for
