Anthony, they sound wonderful, but I only use trebles. ed
At 08:46 PM 8/25/2007 +0200, Anthony Hind wrote: >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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.6/971 - Release Date: 8/24/2007 >2:59 PM Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
