Well I just noticed (after the fact) that right there in your initial post you
designate the strings. Kind what I thought I heard, including the nylgut
treble. Just these past two weeks I have strung my own Baroque lute (Old Robert
Lundberg "Hoffthing") in NewNylGut on the first five courses. Mixed feelings,
almost hated it at first, but (as you noticed) they seem to mellow out a bit as
they break in- and/or we are improving our touch to accommodate. They are still
on probation. I use all gut octaves, old KFG fundamentals for 6, 7, and 8; and
dug up some old 1st generation Mimmo loadeds for the rest- except an old Larson
Gimp for the 12th-B.
My own steel-string is a 7 string flattop Dean acoustic- Thomastik-Infeld
"BeBop" 14's for 7 - 2, and a 10 for the 1st. Pitched at f#, I use it as a fake
"orpharion" Never mastered the blues idiom. Your playing- esp. in "context"
with the de Visee, is an inspiration.
Dan
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
> Ah strings...D'Addario Phosphor Bronze, 12s. Oh, you mean on the lute? Well,
> I'm not 100 per cent sure, as Malcolm's computer died just as he was about to
> send me the string list. But all the trebles and bass octaves are gut. I am a
> fan of old Kurschner basses, but will have to wait a year or so until these
> ones die down a bit. The first course is an Aquila nylgut, which I hated when
> I put it on, but after two weeks it has become indistinguishable from the
> other gut strings.
>
> 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 :-)
>
> Malcolm Prior is making an entirely new website, and his old one no longer
> exists. He is not very up to speed with the technology, so it might take a
> few weeks before appearing online. I'll let you know when it does.
>
> Thanks for the nice comments. I spend most of my time on the instrument
> reading through Weiss suites, and the works of some guy called Sautscheck...
>
> Rob
>
> www.robmackillop.net
>
> On 20 Oct 2011, at 00:01, Daniel Winheld <dwinh...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Beautiful! OK- the IMPORTANT lautengeek question: What strings is she
>> wearing? Also, further praise for that great Blind Boy Fuller piece ("Meat
>> Shakin' Woman") Same touch, same hand position & technique, and open "D"
>> tuning- pairs perfectly with the de Visee. Even a similar mood/feeling- just
>> the next piece in the "suite'', kind of.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
>>
>>> Here's my first video with my new Malcolm Prior 13c, of a tombeau by
>>> Robert de Visee - not quite 13c repertoire, but close enough.
>>>
>>> YouTube: [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTu2pLsye0
>>>
>>> Or the same on the Ning
>>> site: [2]http://lutegroup.ning.com/video/tombeau-de-dubut-by-robert-de-
>>> visee
>>>
>>> Gut trebles and octaves. Kurschner basses. Nylgut 1st course.
>>>
>>> Rob MacKillop
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> References
>>>
>>> 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BTu2pLsye0
>>> 2. http://lutegroup.ning.com/video/tombeau-de-dubut-by-robert-de-visee
>>>
>>>
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>>
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