I think you will be surprised at how you will like the 5 th course in
octaves. Good luck!
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On Nov 23, 2019, at 12:34 PM, Jurgen Frenz
wrote:

Hello Edward,
thank you very much, I feel encouraged now to "go octaves" all the way
down from 5th.
You could try Aquila CD strings or (as you were considering) Savarez PVF.
Best,
Matthew
On 23 nov. 2019, at 13:17, Jurgen Frenz
wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have an 8c lute now since 10 months and from the beginning I'm
> "unhappy" with the sound of the unison C strings on it. I
Hello Edward,
thank you very much, I feel encouraged now to "go octaves" all the way
down from 5th. course.I should consider myself stupid that I hesitated,
because who is there to judge me apart from myself. I am not competing
in any academic exercise :-)
Thank you very much
Thanks Wayne. I thought it was something like this but couldn't quite
remember.
The business of blank lines: do you mean a soace between paragraphs
(which doesn't seem to produce a space when transmitted) or
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actually typing in
Hi Martyn
The lute list converts all text to plain text. No fonts, no font sizes, no
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Hello Jurgen,
I agree that in with 8-course lutes, they do tend to not sound as
brilliant as with octaves. Of course, it is a compromise, but on my
8-course lute, I have octaves on 5,6,7, & 8 and like it very much.
Whatever brand of strings you try, I think you will like the 5th
6 course spanish guitar wound strings: yes, there is a spanish source that is
Juan Vargas Y Guzman of 1773 that mentioned that this instrument has wound
strings in the 4th, 5th and 6th courses (i.e. entorchados). It is not sauid
that are silk wound but we are in 1773, when the silk strings
Hello there,
I have an 8c lute now since 10 months and from the beginning I'm
"unhappy" with the sound of the unison C strings on it. I changed the
plain Aquila strings to round-wound Aquilas but to me it sounds quite
the same. What I'm missing is the high frequencies that we have
Ah - interpolation in bold doesn't seem to work here so I'll cut and
paste below.
(To Wayne - I think you've explained this before so excuse me for being
a bit dim: but can't the original paragraph spacings and even font
types be preserved in these threads? - it makes it so much
And thank you too Mimmo,
I'll interpolate my responses in bold italic below if I may
regards
Martyn
On Saturday, 23 November 2019, 11:05:18 GMT, Mimmo - Aquila Corde
Armoniche wrote:
Grazie Martyn,
However I have the necessity to have historical evidences about the
Grazie Martyn,
However I have the necessity to have historical evidences about the
evidence of the use of silk wound strings
Yes; silk wound strings are louder so I wonder: why between 1670 were
mentioned gut wound strings only (on d minor 11 course german lutes
-see the 1715
Thanks Mimmo,
Regarding silk cores for overwound strings, I agree that they are
louder and more focused than those with just plain gut cores.
However, whilst Mace and Talbot don't mention such strings, I see no
reason to doubt the accuracy of the well known comment by Playford (a
Hi Martyn,
thank you very much to inform me in matter.
The open question about this instrument is still today not totally
solved.
So, I am doing my job concerning the strings only around the instrument
that was in use in Germany around 1740-90 with 6 course (Niggel types)
Dear Mimmo,
Sorry, in my earlier I gave the wrong year for the Edlinger calchedon:
- it should be 1728 not 1729 (the latter is the year Edlinger died).
The instrument is part of the collection in the Narodnì Museum,
Prague. Here's a link to a Czech language magazine site with a
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