Hoppy used to use Lanolin rubbed into his Pyramid basses, but that was 29 years ago.
ed At 06:20 AM 5/24/2012, William Samson wrote: > Hi Ed, > > Age indeed . . . OH! You mean the strings? > > Yes - Dirt and sweat seem to tame them. I was wondering if the process > could be speeded up by rubbing, say, beeswax into an overwound string. > Anybody tried that? > > Bill > From: Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> > To: William Samson <[email protected]>; baroque lute list > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012, 2:36 > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Zingy strings > On May 23, 2012, at 11:31 PM, William Samson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if anybody had found a good way to take the worst of > the > > boom and everlasting sustain out of overwound basses? > Age will help. > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin
