Agree completely. Never meant to sound like the HIP fuzz, and as I mentioned earlier, only two of my instruments are gutted. And as Chris Wilke observed, it's modern gut- how close the the real deal is at least somewhat speculative.
Dan - Off to work now. > It's a shame that this point has to be re-made whenever the moral and > aural superiority of gut strings and those who use them are trumpeted > (sackbutted?) on this list. Let the research and experimentation > continue. But, and I emphasize this for lurkers and shy beginners > alike, there is nothing wrong with playing your lute using the string > material you can afford, can look after and make sound pleasing to your > ear. There are many performers whose concerts and recordings I can only > dream to one day emulate who use mostly synthetics. Same for gut. But > using gut is not an excuse for poorly sounding and out of tune play, > and I've heard both live concerts and recordings on "modern gut" that I > would not want to hear again. > > Danny > > (2 instruments all synthetic strings, archlute 1/2 gut, 11 course lute > all gut) > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:21 PM, <[1][email protected]> wrote: -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
