Dear Bill, The Dufay Collective is an English group, not French. One of the members of the group is Susanna Pell, whose husband is Jacob Heringman. They have a very entertaining website:
http://www.dufay.com Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Lute net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: passionate gut > > dear david - > > i enjoyed reading your letter. > > there is a french group called the "dufay collective" which uses an oud > with gut strings - at least, i think that's the reason their oud sounds > so good - very "piano", i would say; passionate but understated. they > also do some frenetic numbers which are difficult to take but their > more coherent tracks with oud are wonderful. > > in your transition from synthetic to gut, did you stop at nylgut along > the way? i'm curious to try gut on my oud but there is the added > expense to consider plus the use of plectrum (although a very soft one) > which may cause the strings to fall out of tune. > > any ideas? > > ciao - bill
