Many thanks for this David. We have indeed discussed them before but I recall little in the way of pratical experience so your report is very interesting.
When you say the sound is a bit sharp do you mean it has a predominance of upper partials? With many instructions from the early 16th century onwards telling us to play close to the bridge, perhaps this is the sort of edgy sound they wanted? Do you buy these direct or through a stockist or shop? I've always been reluctant to try them since I thought they needed a fairly large order before supplying direct to small customers. Martyn --- On Fri, 18/3/11, David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: From: David van Ooijen <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Beef gut strings To: "lute" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, 18 March, 2011, 9:51 On 18 March 2011 09:03, Martyn Hodgson <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > > Universale, part of a larger Italian group, has been offering these for > some time (I wonder if trhey're the same?) but I've never seen reports As does Toro. I've been using these for some years now. A bit sharpish in sound - they're varnished - good for continuo, not as nice for solo. We've had discussions about these strings on the list before. Authenticity, how many of the gut strings sold as sheep are actually cow anyway, differences in sound. The usual. David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [2][email protected] www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 2. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
