Dear Michael, Just a point of clarification - the Burwell tutor makes no mention of metal-wound strings.
Best wishes, Martin Michael Thames wrote: > The shift to fan bracing would also suggest the use of more dense bass >strings, perhaps they played around with metal wound strings. The Burwell >tutor instructing not to use metal wound strings, implies that in fact they >were used, does it not? One hundred years or so, earlier than Weiss >developments. > >Michael Thames >www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
