Cezar Mateus has been using yellow nylgut for frets, to excellent results,
ever since it became available.
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Winheld" <dwinh...@comcast.net>
To: "Anthony Hind" <agno3ph...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Orphenica" <wer...@orphenica.de>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:57 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings
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
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