Gut strings must have been fantastic. Isn't it a pity none survived so that no one will never know how they actually sounded? Lucky we have these nice synthetics...
Chris --- On Thu, 1/28/10, Monica Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Monica Hall <[email protected]> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics? > To: "David Tayler" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Lutelist" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 8:13 AM > I wholeheartedly > agree. The same is true for the baroque > guitar. Away > with all these synthetics. > > Monica > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Tayler" <[email protected]> > To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:00 AM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and > synthetics? > > > > 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 > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
