From: [1][email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:49 PM
To: [2][email protected]
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Double fret loops
Thank you. I think you'd have to eat your strings to get mad cow,
which is possibly necessary after going broke buying them... I thought
gut strings were all sheep's gut, from which mad cow and a couple
venereal diseases originate... :-) Live and learn! I had a guitar
customer who didn't want bone nut and saddle because of that fear
once. I dunno... The older you get the less mayhem you want to
contribute into the world perhaps... But that line does not belong
here. I see you can get them varnished and plain. Years ago I was
told gut gets sticky in humid air, is that true?
Would a lowing and bellowing lute player make it big in rock music, you
think?
Garry
From: [3]Mark Seifert
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:14 PM
To: [4]Garry Warber
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Double fret loops
Hello Garry,
I have enjoyed your postings and the topic. One issue with, for
example, beef gut strings (which come from Ireland) is the possiblity
of getting mad cow disease from plucking beef gut. Imagine what that
would look like on YouTube--a lute player with mad cow disease, lowing
and bellowing while playing.
I haven't bought any gut (other than fret gut) since the 1980s when
Pyramid was the main source.
Mark Seifert
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