--- LGS-Europe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> You are destroying an
> essential element of the 
> character of your wonderful instrument. Furthermore,
> you are denying 
> yourself and your audience the chance to devellop a
> taste for what is an 
> essential ingredient of a good lute sound: gut
> basses of theorbo, they are 
> so great!

Yes, but... There is only one thing we know for sure
about gut strings in the past: our gut is _not_ "their
gut." (i.e. the exact same type of string that was
made back in the day.)  Therefore, whatever you decide
to use nowadays is "synthetic."  Modern gut is just
one viable option among others.

Chris  

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