Glad to see you are back, Martin (perhaps you weren't away). The Purr'll strings are strong, but how do they sound?
Regards Anthony Le 25 août 07 à 16:44, Martin Shepherd a écrit : > Dear All, > > My experiences with Sofracob gut are much the same as David's - > fine for > everything except a top string. I recently tried to order some > fret gut > from them and they wrote back to say that they no longer supply > fret gut > - dommage! Anyone know of a good source of fret gut? > > By the way, I found the banjo strings quite strong and very cheap when > you get two out of a length. I wonder who manufactures them? > > The issue about single gut is interesting. I always thought that the > thinnest string had to be made out of two whole guts laid thick end to > thin end, because of the taper. Even then, the finished string might > taper somewhat. But the really interesting thing about this is > just how > thin could the old guys have made their strings? If two guts are > needed, the answer is supposedly in the region of .43mm, and that > places > some interesting constraints on just how high a pitch you can tune to > for a given string length - not because the string might break but > because of the uncomfortably high tension involved. > > Can anyone (Mimmo? Dan?) shed more light on this? And while we're at > it, I thought the old guys had to use whole guts as the basis for > their > strings, because the splitting horn wasn't invented until the 18th C. > True or false? > > Best wishes, > > Martin > > LGS-Europe wrote: > >>> I'm also interested in the responses that Universale's strings are >>> particularly strong - I wonder if they wholesale supply some >>> better known >>> companies who may not actually make their own gut from scratch (eg >>> Kurschner)? >>> >>> >> >> I always understood, but I do not know, mind you, that Sofracob >> supplies >> some (?) smaller string makers. Sofracob's main product is >> wholesale gut for >> the medical industrie (10.000.000 meters of catgut yearly, they >> boast on >> their website). Their musical strings are a later by-product and >> they only >> supply treble gut and double twist, no bass strings like Mimmo or >> Dan make. >> They have varnished and non-varnished and they have fret-gut. And >> as I said >> before, they are very cheap. No wonder, with such a high volume >> output. >> >> David >> >> >> **************************** >> David van Ooijen >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.davidvanooijen.nl >> **************************** >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> >> >> > >
