A guitarist acquaintance I worked with told me that when he was an impecunious student (a classical guitar performance major at UW) he would routinely clean his wound bases with alcohol. It removed a surprising amount of crud, and extended the usable life of the strings considerably. Not recommended for instruments with a shellac finish...
Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Herbert Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:25 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Why do strings go dead? > > to wound strings, and should be removable with a soapy > > bath. Then too is the question of whether dirt could actually > > I had a guitar friend with very sweety/acid (?) hands who cooked his bass > strings regularly, removing the green stuff that would accumulate within > one > or twe weeks. He seemed happy with the results. > > David > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
