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EnvoyA(c) le : Samedi 10 mars 2012 16h26
Objet : [LUTE] Re: Why strings out of spider's thread ( blind
objective?)
Dear ones,
I agree, in that waking up, I have the opportunity to read the
interest in continuing to discuss lute strings
Dear All,
As a long-time enthusiast for gut strings I'm beginning to realise that
my attitude may be rather different from most other luteplayers, whether
they use gut or synthetics.
I started with gut (c.1980) because I couldn't stand the sound of
wirewound strings (I still can't). It
Alexander, last evening at our lute salon, I met Charles Besnainou who
I haven't seen for some time, but who briefly taught me how to make one
of his spring strings. These were intended as improvements on Ephraim
Segerman's early gut rope strings.
Briefly, these are a special lang
out of spider's thread ( blind
objective?)
Dear All,
As a long-time enthusiast for gut strings I'm beginning to realise that
my attitude may be rather different from most other luteplayers,
whether they use gut or synthetics.
I started with gut (c.1980) because I couldn't stand
10 mars 2012 10h27
Objet : [LUTE] Re: Why strings out of spider's thread ( blind
objective?)
Dear All,
As a long-time enthusiast for gut strings I'm beginning to realise that
my attitude may be rather different from most other luteplayers,
whether they use gut or synthetics
Well, Anthony.
Normally i avoid controversy, and especially causing one, but i would bravely
go ahead and claim that all the string users in the
medieval-renaissance-baroque times were, in fact, the syntheticicists (vs.
the guttists). May be there were a few (the same relative percentage as
