Hmmmm......... I ought to try that.
ed At 09:29 PM 2/2/2009 -0500, Roland Hayes wrote: >a fabric softener sheet does wonders as well. easy to grab between numbers. r > > >---------- >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 > [<mailto:[email protected]>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>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1930 - Release Date: 01/30/09 > >17:31:00 > > > >Edward Martin >2817 East 2nd Street >Duluth, Minnesota 55812 >e-mail: [email protected] >voice: (218) 728-1202 > > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1930 - Release Date: 01/30/09 >17:31:00 Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] voice: (218) 728-1202
