Arto,
Fret knot your awakened sensability. I too recently switched to gut
strings and can no longer tolerate the tinny, twangy sound of plastic
strings in recordings of any but a few very accomplished masters ( ie. Mr.
Barto). We learn to exude so much more sonority into gut than we ever could
extract from synthetics, without them, it's like someone stole half of the
box of crayons. As long as you keep your right hand down at the bridge, it's
nearly impossible to strike a bad sounding note. I'm a convert. (and/or a
snob) Again, I only play galant era music where, like french classical lute,
sonority is an huge part of the picture.
Dale
----- Original Message -----
From: "wikla" <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:11 PM
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Synthetic strings soundig like a bad guitar? ;-)
Dear only baroque lute list lutenists,
questions sent to he main list also to you:
-------- Original Message --------
Dear lutenists,
there is a problem - to me at least:
- Some time ago a certain person commented one of my "accords nouveaux"
"y-tubings" by words: "it sounds like a bad guitar". I was playing a
10-courser stringed by synthetics.
- Since last December I have been playing an 11-courser stringed by gut.
In
the beginning I had very harsh sound. Perhaps getting better? Not much.
Who
knows? But REALLY enjoyable touch and feel!
- Now the 11-courser is in "garage"; some bar(-s) is(are) loose. Eagerly
waiting to get it back...
- The problem: My lutes stringed by synthetic strings sound also to me -
especially when recorded! - "like a bad guitar".
Is it really so, or did I just miss the touch to synthetics?
worried,
Arto
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