Light the end of one with a match. It will be obvious pretty quickly
if they are gut or synthetic.
My guitar didn't go up in smoke when I tried it so presumably they are
genuine. Sigh of relief.
Monica
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
>> A --
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>> A
>>
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>>
>> A
>>
>> [3]www.estavel.org
>>
>> A
>>
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>> References
>>
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>> 3. [10]http://www.estavel.org/
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