I have used .42 beef gut for the best trebles- for durability & strength- from Toro, obtained through Universale- I got them directly from the Viola da Gamba builder Marco Ternovec of Belgium when he came to the Berkeley Early Music Festival & Exhibition several years ago. If these strings are still obtainable they should work for at least the 2nd & 3rd course as well. Maybe the 4th. And of course I have perfectly good trebles for my viola da gamba.
It looks like real gut string buying is becoming more HIP "authentic"- the different kinds of strings coming from widely different sources, dependent on political, climatic, seasonal, and other environmental/health conditions in the real world. "a little bit more of horse sense is recommended" Horse Gut! Racing horses for trebles & fast passaggi, draft horses for basses & continuo. Dan Best wishes, and pray that we are spared from Mad Horse disease. > It is quite funny - and also a little bit alarming- to see, how the EU > bureaucracy becames the projection area for the strangest ideas and > fears. A reputation well earned, some may say, but a little bit more of > horse sense is recommended when one reads announcements like the one > about gut strings - (or, before, the one about the alleged prohibition > of natural medicine). > > In fact many people here in Brussels are quite normal. I as a German > was at once sure that it must be a hoax, because we eat every day > 12.689.344 sausages, many of them with a delicious skin of sheep gut. I > called a big producer of those so called "saitling" sausage skins: they > are producing happily and will go on forever. The same with Kuerschner > strings. > > I asked people form the health department of the EU commission: guts no > topic at all. > > If you want to read really strange laws, read your national legislation > :)) > > So: No idea, where the gut story comes from. > > Perhaps we should still start in the good tradition one of those > internet petitions ;) > > best wishes (while wishing is still allowed) > > Bernd To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
