I'll second that!
JL
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Daniel Winheld" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:21 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Objet : Re: Switching between gut strings and
synthetics?
Dan,
--- On Fri, 1/29/10, Daniel Winheld <[email protected]> wrote:
we finally agreed that the serious
lute
player just has to have two of every lute- one in
synthetics for gigs
and one in gut to keep himself honest.
Ah, the HIP police! There's nothing "honest" about using modern strings
made by modern makers that happen to be made of the same material as the
old ones. And, by implication, nothing "dishonest" or "unserious" about a
player using synthetics! There is a gigantic litany of observable
differences between modern strings and period depictions and descriptions.
We can call them both "gut strings", but ours simply are NOT THE SAME
STRINGS that were used in olden days.
In sum:
Are synthetic strings close to the sound of old guts? Dunno. Are modern
guts any closer? Dunno.
Let's call the whole thing off.
Chris
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