Of course, excessive and ugly finger noise is ugly to modern guitarists too.
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: Taco Walstra [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:58 AM > To: lutelist > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Old Satoh Vinyl Recording > > On Monday 02 February 2009, Anthony Hind rattled on the keyboard: > > The LP's (it is a 2-record set) were done years ago, before people > > were recording in gut. > > > > ed > ... > > Yes, I forgot that gut stringing, came in around the 80s, > while thumb- > > in (which Terry used) was reintroduced (under the influence > of Michael > > Schaeffer) a little earlier, I think. > > Still we encounter so many ensembles where all violins, > violas, celli, .. use gut strings but the theorbo/lute player > has an instrument stringed with an ugly set of nylgut,, pvf, > nylon and some gut diapasons. The "reintroduction" > is surely not finished. > Can't resist to mention the CD by serdoura where you wrote a > translation of the foreword, anthony. Serdoura is an example > of somebody who has his feet still in the starting of the > 70s. No warm sound at all on this CD, still no use of gut > strings. Ugly fingersounds rubbing over positions on the > fingerboards like guitarplayers. The 70s are still present in > our time. > Well, the 70 had their charm too. Nice recordings by led > zeppelin, pink floyd.. > Taco > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
