The number of all the enticing possibilities to keep us from actually PLAYING is staggering, isn't it? RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:24 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Titanium-Nylon and Perlon? > > On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:57 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > >> Sean and Dana >> I think you must both be correct (in a way). I have not experimented >> this, but in my mind I see myself stretching a piece of rubber band >> held between two fingers of both hands,. >> In between the hands the rubber band will become thinner, but on the >> other side of the fingers, there is no lengthening, and therefore it >> should remain the same, too thick to go through the bridge hole. >> You perhaps need to pass another stiff thin string through the bridge >> hole, and use that to pull the string through (so that it is >> stretched from tip to toe). >> >> It does seem complicated, so perhaps the string was shorter than the >> lute, but not quite as short as his gesture implied. >> >> However, Charles Besnaiou does have a few tricks up his sleeves, such >> as making nylgut ropes to replace wire wounds, and attaching them >> with one or two of the strands, so as not to have to widen the bridge >> hole. >> > > Dear Anthony, > > Maybe I'm very short of vision here. Sending another smaller string > through sounds good till I imagine connecting it to the real string: A > knot, however grasped, usually makes it larger. And despite my feeble > attempt at humor I can't think of how to compress the end diameter as > though it were under tension. > > But I've been surprised before and I'm sure there are tricks or tools > that have so far escaped me. > > tout le best, > Sean > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
