On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Daniel Shoskes wrote: > A question for the "no gut, no glory" crowd. I have noticed that > gut > strings are stickier on my left hand fingers and sometimes when > I lift > off the string the stickiness can cause extraneous sounds. Have > others > noticed this and have they found any solutions?
Are you talking about squeaking, or an unwanted sounding of the open string pitch, or something else? I've never had the latter problem, but I live in a relatively dry climate. Squeaking varies with the style of string, I've found. Is it possible your hands perspire a lot? Are you using polished gut? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
