luckily I bought a supply of gut strings and fret gut from Sofracob,
just as they closed, to last me the rest of my life....or at least my
playing life.... I am 53.
A
good luck to everyone in finding affordable gut.A Maybe the chinese
will come up with something,A I'm sure they have no laws concerning
gut.
A
Bruno
Montreal, Canada
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Winheld
<[1]dwinh...@comcast.net> wrote:
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:
> A Dear Lutenists
> A A A A It does seem that Aquila has decided to stop gut
string
> A production, which is catastrophic for those of us who use
loaded guts.
> A There appears to have been but one remaining legal European
source for
> A gut, and EU laws are making even this problematic, and are
preventing a
> A serious search for new sourcing.
> A Mimmo now seems to consider that the quality of available gut
has gone
> A down. beyond an acceptable limit.
> A Whether other European makers are going to follow Aquila, I
don't know.
> A Hopefully, Dan Larson being outside the EU, will not be too
effected.
> A Perhaps Ed can tell us.
> A Nevertheless, after Sofracob's disappearence, this will be a
real blow
> A to gut users.
> A I am hoping that aquila will succeed in producing good loaded
> A synthetics, and that hopefully these will be very close in
sound and
> A feel to present loaded gut, as the feel of the this is perhaps
more
> A effected by the copper powder than by the texture of the gut.
> A Nevertheless, I do feel a real loss, as I have A taken so much
pleasure
> A and interest in Mimmo's experiments with loaded gut, as well as
having
> A strung all my lutes with these basses.
> A Best wishes
> A Anthony
> A A
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