>I will doubtless experiment with strings over the coming year. I love the creaky-ness of the gut strings, but I am having intonation problems which can be really annoying. Damian Dlugolecki sent me some gut >basses to try out, and I am interested in Dan's gimped strings too. But it all gets very expensive! I've read good reports about the new nylgut for the first six courses of a baroque lute...or maybe I'll go all 1970s >retro and use plain old nylon :-) Funny thing - Diana Poulton, who learned to play the lute in the days when gut was the only option, was delighted when nylon strings came along and liberated her from the fear of strings breaking during live performances, tuning problems in variable humidity an so on. I always thought she looked a little puzzled when players went retro and started to use gut again.
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