I got one of these that was made in 1920, I put gut strings on mine for the treble and nylon lute strings for the bass because they are similar to gut. The gut strings/lute strings have lesser tension than the standard nylon guitar string, and I think produce a more historically accurate sound considering these instruments would have been made to use gut strings. Beautiful instrument though! And great playing!!!
@steelsergesteelserge99392 жыл бұрын
SUBLIME
@santrixhimself36793 жыл бұрын
What kind of strings are on there? Kind of sounds like a classical guitar with a hint of western guitar
@theoldeuropeguitars3 жыл бұрын
standard nylon strings, medium tension. I would not advise to put anything else on it ;-)
@santrixhimself36793 жыл бұрын
@@theoldeuropeguitars 'great for slide playing' after putting on some steel strings
@theoldeuropeguitars3 жыл бұрын
@@santrixhimself3679 if you want to destroy this historic instrument, go ahead! ;-)
@santrixhimself36793 жыл бұрын
@@theoldeuropeguitars no no, i wouldnt do that. Thats whst people would write in their ebay describtion;)
@theoldeuropeguitars2 жыл бұрын
@Simon McCreath Some of them are playable, unless you expect a super low string action, then that is very rare. Sometimes you can sand down the bridge a bit (I did that on several occasions) to bring down the string action. In general, these were never intended to allow for singlenote speed runs on the higher up frets. They were supposed for mild chord strumming while singing folksy tunes at the campfire in the 1920s and 1930s, in the so called "Wandervogel"-Bewegung (wandering bird movement), a youth thing back then where juveniles went hiking and camping together, and sadly also exchanged a lot of not so nice ideas of the time. Anyway, especially when some were strung with steel strings, the neck (which does not have a truss rod) might be beyond repair.
@Maestro_Svyatoslavius5 ай бұрын
Дякую, Сір. Але я думаю, що це не зовсім та музика, яку потрібно виконувати на такому музичному інструменті