And fret gut? It is ironic that I can find acceptable synthetic string material, but so far not for frets. Nylon out of the question. Once I tried KFG, figuring that density was part of the problem- transmission of sound through to the neck (gut denser than nylon, KF & KFG denser than gut; should have worked on that basis) but that didn't sound good either. We've already got enough to worry about, taking instruments across state lines if the wrong wood or dinosaur nuts are involved. Dan
On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > Dear Lutenists > It does seem that Aquila has decided to stop gut string > production, which is catastrophic for those of us who use loaded guts. > There appears to have been but one remaining legal European source for > gut, and EU laws are making even this problematic, and are preventing a > serious search for new sourcing. > Mimmo now seems to consider that the quality of available gut has gone > down. beyond an acceptable limit. > Whether other European makers are going to follow Aquila, I don't know. > Hopefully, Dan Larson being outside the EU, will not be too effected. > Perhaps Ed can tell us. > Nevertheless, after Sofracob's disappearence, this will be a real blow > to gut users. > I am hoping that aquila will succeed in producing good loaded > synthetics, and that hopefully these will be very close in sound and > feel to present loaded gut, as the feel of the this is perhaps more > effected by the copper powder than by the texture of the gut. > Nevertheless, I do feel a real loss, as I have taken so much pleasure > and interest in Mimmo's experiments with loaded gut, as well as having > strung all my lutes with these basses. > Best wishes > Anthony > __________________________________________________________________ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
