Two fist-hand accounts. Julian Bream talking about himself. So excited when finally he too had a set of nylon trebles. So happy. Used it for concerts, took it off to wash and dry (!) in between. End of many gut-troubles. Never looked back. But also saying those sweet gut trebles, no, those modern strings don't sound half as nice as they did.
Lutenist/composer Toyohiko Satoh, switched from gut to nylon to carbon back to gut. The works he composed during his carbon period, he says, really are different on gut. Not everything asked for is even possible because of the different strings. Differences in technique, possibilities, sound. How would Weiss have rewritten his pieces, had he had synthetics? David - is surprised by all the answers, as he has only questions On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Daniel Winheld <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a fellow, name of Andres Segovia I believe, followed > himself all over the world breaking gut treble strings regularly on a > guitar. Finally wound up in the caring hands of Rose and Albert > Augustine and a pile of raw nylon from Dupont. Didn't change his > repertoire or instrument, and he liked the tone quality of an > unbroken string in front of a live audience. On the other hand, > Willie Nelson produced an extraordinary "gutsy" sounding album some > years ago; gut strung classical guitar played with a pick. Great > sound indeed- kind of like a synthesis of an oud and a Flamenco > guitar. > > And just today at the record (well, CD) store I sold a remastered > pre-electric recording from the turn of the previous century of the > very late, very great American violinist Maude Powell, playing on a > gut "e" string. Also minimal, controlled vibrato, flawless technique, > deeply felt playing. And no such thing as edits. > > Dan- too beside himself to follow either of you or himself. > >> > Of course you can say for sure Francesco, Dowland and Weiss would have >> used >> > gut living today ??? >>> They would have jump on synth string saying I dreamed my all life about >>> this >>> !!!! >>> LOL >> > Val (follows himself too ;-) >> >> >> There's no reason to use the synthetics just because Ronn >> >> McFarlane, Paul O'Dette, and Nigel North use them >> >> > Indeed, and Francesco, Dowland and Weiss used gut. >>> Who would you like to follow? >>> >> > David - follows himself > > -- > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl *******************************
