On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Lex Eisenhardt<eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote: > the basses would > have to balance with the (probably modest) sound level of the plucked > trebles.
Valid point. On my shortish archlute the shortish (106cm) basses are indeed in balance with the 61cm fingerboard strings. David - usual disclaimer as in my last posting on the subject: mine is not a GTh nor a historical instrument, just a practical lute that works, which can teach us something -- ******************************* David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html