It don't mean a thing If it ain't got gut strings. dt
At 12:52 PM 1/26/2010, you wrote: >Dear lutenists, > >the difference of touch between those two approachs of stringing seems to >be a tricky business! I had (still have!;-) problems after years of >synthetics in starting with gut strings, but after getting some preliminary >touch to gut strings, playing the synthetics with acceptable sound feels >even more difficult than the move from synthetics to gut! > >Any advice? Any advice other than "stay in gut/synthetics"? > >Arto > >PS A little similiar problem arises, when you switch between single string >theorbo and double course lute... > >PS2 recent example tries of those two > gut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPisQNbeZc > synth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwKBSjljnc > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
