--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Anton Birula <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Anton Birula <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: AW: [LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics? > To: "Franz Mechsner" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 5:40 PM > It is very well explained in the > message right after mine concerning period orchestra As for > detailes concerning lute there is only one way to feel it - > to play such a lute. I can explain what I do: > > Baroque lute > > IMPORTANT : High tension on the strings all actaves are at > least 2,8 kg > trebles: > > 1 - 3,8 - 4 kg > 2 - 3,7 > 3 rd course 3,2 > 4rth around 3 > all actaves are at least 2,8 kg > > To my opinion there is no good solution for basses. > All my experience with any gut strings - overspun gut, open, > loaded anything is a sad one. > Tuning is my obsession. Sorry for that, I am a pianist in > my first education:) > For this reason all the wound strings - 5 th course and all > the Basses are PYRAMID. Not less than 2,8 kg. > > The basses with gut core etc. cause the tuning problems. > When setting the lute with Gut trebles and octaves and > pyramid basses I never had any significant tunning > situations. > Anna played two Bach Suites once and had to tune one string > recently. > I use HR type by AQUILA they are very stable and usually > show a sign of wear before breaking. > > > > More or less the same is done by Hopkinson Smith, Rolf > Lislevand on their baroque lute recordings. I asked them in > person about that. > > Anton > > > --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Franz Mechsner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Franz Mechsner <[email protected]> > > Subject: AW: [LUTE] Re: Switching between gut > strings and synthetics? > > To: "Anton Birula" <[email protected]>, > "Bernd Haegemann" <[email protected]> > > Cc: "lute" <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 5:24 PM > > [LUTE] Re: > > Switching between gut strings and synthetics? > > > > > > > > > > The problem is that playing > > gut changes our perception of the lute tone, touch > and > > articulation. A lot of things we are trying to reach > on > > nylon are happening themselves on gut. > > > > Dear Anton > > > > Could you please explain that > > in some detail? > > > > Thanks > > Franz (no > > gut-experience) > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
