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From: Edward Martin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Mon 2/2/2009 7:12 PM
To: Eugene C. Braig IV; 'lutelist'
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Old Satoh Vinyl Recording
On a recent recording project of 11-course music, my first efforts
failed
with terrible string squeaking, so gut makes string noise as well.
The remedy: hand lotion. It feels weird, but it sure cleans up the
ugly
finger noise.
ed
At 12:20 PM 2/2/2009 -0500, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
>Of course, excessive and ugly finger noise is ugly to modern
guitarists too.
>
>Eugene
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Taco Walstra [[1]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
> >
> >
> >
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>
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