Omar Al-Mufti - 10-22-2015 at 12:48 AM
Gents,
Hope everyone is doing well.
Before bothering you with this question, I referred to older posts, and didn't get really the straight-between-the-eyes answer.
Would you please help me by sharing the strings tension for D'addario J95 if mounted on a 58.5 mm string length oud tuned Arabic C FF AA DD gg cc.
One more help. Does anybody knows, if I throw away the J95 nylons and replace them with D'addario NYL024 and NYL030 on the very same oud and same
tuning, what the tension would be on those replaced string?
I really appreciate any help you could provide. The information I need is to determine differences between different oud string sets.
thank you in advance,
Omar
Brian Prunka - 10-22-2015 at 07:22 AM
.043w C: 3.55 Kg
.033w F: 3.40 Kg
.029w A: 3.52 Kg
.025w d: 3.98 Kg
.028 g: 2.12 Kg
.022 c':2.33 Kg
NYL030 g: 2.44 Kg
NYL024 c': 2.78 Kg
In my opinion, the tension on the d course is a rather high in this set. For Arabic tuning, 58.5cm scale, I'd suggest around .026 c' and .031 g (2.6
Kg). D'addario doesn't make a .026, but LaBella and Savarez do. D'addario's .027 would be 3.52 Kg, which is ok. You would then need to bump up the g
to .032 I think (2.77 Kg).
For the d course, .024w would be an improvement but still a bit high at 3.77 Kg. .022w brings you in line with the rest of the set at 3.49 Kg.
Omar Al-Mufti - 10-24-2015 at 02:52 PM
Brian.......many thanks!