..cats!caaats!!caaaaaatttsss!!! - come here! Go get some sheep! Steffen Gliese
Stewart McCoy wrote: >Dear All, > >Just a reminder. Cat gut has nothing to do with cats. My >understanding is that cat gut is short for cattle gut. The word >cattle, at least in old English, can mean cows and/or sheep. Gut for >lute strings is made from sheep gut, i.e. cattle gut, i.e. cat gut. > >Best wishes, > >Stewart McCoy. > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:20 PM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: (LUTE) Ownership > > > > >>1 7-course Alto (56 cm?) >>1 10-course R-Axe (63 cm) >>1 11-course Tielke (69 cm) >>1 13-course swan-neck Hoffmann (70/98 cm) >>1 14-course Liuto Attiorbato (67/100 cm) >>1 Wandervogellaute (6 strings) (never cared) >>1 6-course Vihuela (60 cm) >>1 Biedermeier-guitar - does this count? (64,5 cm) >> >>A wife and one 10 year old son. No living reservoire for >> >> >"catguts" - I > > >>still buy Aquila (but whenever I feel the need to menace a cat I >> >> >tell > > >>her "you could be my next treble string" :-)) >> >>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >>Von: Arto Wikla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2005 11:17 >>An: [email protected] >>Betreff: [LUTE] Re: (LUTE) Ownership >> >> >> >>6-course lute, 63cm:1x1+5x2 >>7-course soprano lute, 44cm:1x1+6x2 >>8-course lute, 62.2cm:1x1+7x2 >>10-course lute, 61.5cm:1x1+9x2 >> >>archlute, 67cm:1x1+5x2/100cm:8x1 >>French theorbo, 76cm:8x1/140cm:6x1 >>chitarrone (overo tiorba), 86.7cm:7x1/158.7cm:8x1 >> >>chitarrino, 53.5cm:1x1+3x2 >> >>8 tarantulas, each has 8 legs >>Finnish-Lappish dog, 1 year, 4 legs >> >>Cheers, >> >>Arto >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > >
