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
