Nor they should. The silk has to be twisted in a very different way for the lute, very unlike any of the oriental instruments. As a matter of fact, they actually understood it well, developing a totally different technique for twisting the Oud strings. The same, actually applies to the viol, though a well made silk string for a Qin that would fit the third string diameter - would work. But no viol player would accept the airy and wispy top strings. alexander
> I recall bringing some silk strings from Singapore to the LSA Seminar in > 1987 and Grant Tomlinson and others were not impressed on a lute and > ren. Guitar. Maybe on a viol they would be better. r > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of alexander > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:20 PM > To: lutelist Net > Subject: [LUTE] Re: silk string sighting > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
