Dear Daniel,
It might be possible that you press the strings too much. Using "light
touch" shouldn't produce any noise except natural gut sqeaking which is
very gentle normally. Oiling may dimnish the problem, but unfortunately
oiled string won't sound as bright as it could without the treatment.
Obviously washing hands before playing is very important too.
All best
Jaroslaw
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Shoskes" <[email protected]>
To: "howard posner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "lute" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:00 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Left hand gut issues
String will stick to my finger and sometimes "restrike" as I lift off.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:48 AM, howard posner
<[1][email protected]> wrote:
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
[2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
--
References
1. mailto:[email protected]
2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
