Dear Anton
> Do you think 3 kilos tension is ok for the wound gut
> basses? Or should it be less somehow?
Ed will be able to help you more on the technical issue of tension;
but I am not sure whether you are asking if the wound gut can be
tensed to 3K. I suppose that depends on the diameter of the strings,
or whether you are speaking about the lute.
Savarez should be able to help with that technical issue, also.
As far as variable behavior of nylon in relation to gut strings,
obviously we would all like strings to behave identically so that
they would go equally out of tune (and therefore stay in tune longer
between themselves); but I have found that Pistoys, and other tressed
or twined strings behave differently from single core gut strings. I
often have to tune down the Pistoy after it has been in the case, and
up the single core.
David van Ooijen does not use Gimped Pistoys, because he feels they
go out of tune at a different rate from Pistoys (I hope I have quoted
David correctly), but I find that my Gimped strings behave exactly
like other Pistoys, but differently from single core.
Obviously, a nylon core will be more stable, so it will behave quite
differently to a Pistoy or a songle core.
I think Paul Beier, on his 11 course lute used a mixture of Gimped
Larson strings and Aquila loaded strings from a very early batch of
loaded gut from Aquila. Unfortunately, the later ones, as Lindberg
implies in his article in the LSA, had problems. Mimmo Peruffo is
trying to correct this, I believe, with his new Venice loaded
strings; but they are not yet available to the public (if they ever
actually will be).
I dare say that you have already considered using Gimped strings, and
have decided against them; although they are a very good substitute
for heavy Pistoys. Ed uses them, I believe on both his 11c and his
13c, so he can advize you about that.
However, if you know them well, and have decided against them, for
whatever reason, then I believe there may be some open would gut
strings that are in between gimped strings and fully wound strings.
These may be better suited to your intentions. I see that Aquila is
announcing an open wound copy of the Raphael Mest's lute bass open
wound strings.
http://www.aquilacorde.com/catalogo11.htm
Also I think NRI make this sort of open wound string, others probably
do, but I don't know of them.
Regards
Anthony
Le 22 sept. 07 à 11:54, Anton Birula a écrit :
> Dear Ed, Anthony
>
> I indeed played all the time on kurschner wound
> strings (synthetic) and felt they were the bes for me.
> But now I do have the gut strung baroque lute which is
> wonderful and Aquila Gut is very good. The basses I
> have are Demi File and I still feel I would like to
> try something else as well.
> I remember once using kurschner Gut wound strings and
> the were very close to the synthetic ones in sound.
> That is true that kurschner is very close.
> The problem is I would not like to mix gut and nylon
> floss since it is hard to tune and they react to
> temperature in totally different way.
> Do you think 3 kilos tension is ok for the wound gut
> basses? Or should it be less somehow?
>
> Thanks for writing, Anton
>
>
>
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