Light the end of one with a match. It will be obvious pretty quickly
if they are gut or synthetic.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Another Era Lutherie
www.anotherera.com
--- On Thu, 11/17/11, Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut strings
To: "Francesco Tribioli" <tribi...@arcetri.astro.it>
Cc: "Lutelist" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 9:39 AM
Kuerschner - from the catalog they say: "plain gut (polyester)" so I
wonder
if those strings are gut or polyester.
I was wondering about that too! I last bought a set of Kuerchner
strings
for my baroque guitar from a dealer in the UK in May and they are gut
as far
as I can tell but perhaps I have been mislead.
Their list of alternative methods of stringing the baroque guitar
include
two
which are entirely their own invention - 2 bourdons on the 5th course
but
octave stringing on the 4th... and two treble strings on the 5th course
and
two bourdons on the 4th course.....
Perhaps they are not as reliable as they seem...
Monica
Pyramid made gut strings in the past but I don't see gut mentioned
anywhere
in their site now.
Stoppani - I heard that he makes only bass and midrange strings, not
chantarelles, but I cannot say because there isn't a string catalog
on his
site.
Kathedrale - I don't know: there isn't a string catalog either
Both Stoppani and Kathedrale seems to me like small companies,
probably
not
able to fill the string shortage.
The situation doesn't look bright...
Francesco
-----Original Message-----
From: [1]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu
[mailto:[2]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of Bruno Fournier
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:39 PM
To: [3]b...@symbol4.de
Cc: [4]simon.lamb...@stfc.ac.uk; [5]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut strings
Hi All,A
One thing for sure, when I spoke to the Sofracob owner last year
before
he closed, he mentioned that one of the main reasons and
problems, was
the mad cow disease issues in France over the last few years, and
that
it was becoming more and more difficult to obtain gut. A So who
knows
what the real story is. A Did anyone ask Mimmo directly?
regards
BrunoA
Montreal, Canada
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:00 AM, <[1][6]b...@symbol4.de> wrote:
A >Does anyone know if Kuerchner in Germany is still making gut
strings?
A Or Kathedrale (?).
A It is quite funny - and also a little bit alarming- to see,
how
the EU
A bureaucracy becames the projection area for the strangest
ideas
and
A fears. A reputation well earned, some may say, but a little
bit
more of
A horse sense is recommended when one reads announcements like
the
one
A about gut strings - (or, before, the one about the alleged
prohibition
A of natural medicine).
A In fact many people here in Brussels are quite normal. I as
a
German
A was at once sure that it must be a hoax, because we eat
every day
A 12.689.344 sausages, many of them with a delicious skin of
sheep
gut. I
A called a big producer of those so called "saitling" sausage
skins: they
A are producing happily and will go on forever. The same with
Kuerschner
A strings.
A I asked people form the health department of the EU
commission:
guts no
A topic at all.
A If you want to read really strange laws, read your national
legislation
A :))
A So: No idea, where the gut story comes from.
A Perhaps we should still start in the good tradition one of
those
A internet petitions ;)
A best wishes (while wishing is still allowed)
A Bernd
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