Stephan Olbertz wrote: >this thread led me to re-read Segerman's article on his >website at >http://www.nrinstruments.demon.co.uk/LuSt.html
Thanks for this. There is a lot of food for thought in that article. He says: >It is possible to approach the original type of sound balance with >modern materials. We can twist nylon and PVF and make ropes out of >them. We have been showing this stringing on a vihuela at the London >Early Music Exhibition for some years now... This is exactly what I was wondering about the other day when I listened again to a cassette lecture (available from the LSA) about gut stringing by Damien Dlugolecki. Has anyone tried twisting NylGut into Catlines or rope strings? I am definitely not satisfied with wound basses. My lute came with loaded gut basses when I got it, which sounded great but were useless, as far as I was concerned, because they were out of tune with the octaves when fretted. One other problem with playing technique is the difference in size between strings within a course. If the difference is too great, it causes problems with the angle one can use with the finger when fretting and bar chords. I would like to know if roped strings are thinner than loaded gut strings with an equivalent tension. cheers, -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
