Well, with sheep, prion disease is called scrapie, isn't it, and it was known long before mad cow disease turned up.
Mathias > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im > Auftrag von R. Mattes > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. November 2011 11:27 > An: lute list > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:08:14 +0100, Luca Manassero wrote > > Dear List, > > as Mimmo explains in a video (unfortunately in Italian) on his > > facebook page, the original beef gut regulation in EU was due to fear > > of the so-called "mad cow" disease transmission. > > Excuse my ignorance, but since when are gut strings made out of beef gut? I > always assumed that Aquilla's gut strings are made from sheep gut. > > > Cheers, Ralf Mattes > > -- > R. Mattes - > Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg > r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
