Herbert Ward wrote: > If I understand you, your statement is consistent with what I was > saying.
Then I wasn't being clear. You questioned whether strings might go dead from "accrued imbalance from wear, or dents from the frets). But," you said, "while damage might cause false harmonics, I don't see how it could cause the loss of brilliance which is the hallmark of a dead string." What I'm suggesting is that a string that is (with apologies to Bram Stoker) undead is "brilliant" because of its harmonic patterns, so that false harmonics may indeed be a cause of death, as it were, or at least go hand in hand with it: the string is dead because some harmonics disappear or weaken. I don't really know. And one player's "dead" can be another's "settled in." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
