I am completely addicted to the sound and feel of gut, a confirmed "gut-nut " (if you will); and whatever the tuning problems, I would stick with it. Of course I am even more happy if gut is becoming as stable or more so than synthetics. I am completely with you on that, Ed. and looking forward to a Baroque lute entirely strung in gut. I am very pleased to see that I am far from being alone, and that there seems to be movement on the French list in that direction too (more people declaring their love of the gut sound). Anthony
Le 9 févr. 07 à 13:51, Edward Martin a écrit : > This is not necessarily so. Many gut players and I can attest that > we have > been in situations where gut is more stable than synthetics. In many > concerts, I have performed with my renaissance duet partner where I > was in > gut, he was in synthetics, where he was tuning so frequently, could > not get > it right, and I did not have to touch a peg. The new gut strings > are so > much better than a few years ago. The processing changes, by some > string > makers, have stabilized the pitch problem. > > ed > > At 11:13 AM 2/9/2007 +0100, Anthony Hind wrote: >> I have not heard Toyohiko' Weichenberger recording, so I can't judge >> about the "in tuneness" of his lute. Although gut is obviously prone >> to going out of tune more quickly than nylgut, in the stable >> environment of the recording studio this should not be an impossible >> problem. > > > > Edward Martin > 2817 East 2nd Street > Duluth, Minnesota 55812 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > voice: (218) 728-1202 > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
