Hi collective lute wisdom,
can somebody sum up the situation on gut strings for me. As I am a heavy
gut player, I'd like to
understand what is going on in this field.
As far as I understood it, the production and import of gut strings
(esp. beef gut) used to be forbidden in the EU,
due to cases of BSE some years ago. This jurisdiction has been withdrawn
and production is allowed again, with the exception of Italy which
missed to cancel the abolition from the national Italian body of law.
Aquila stopped the production of gut strings due to this national
Italian jurisdiction AND/OR because it could not get raw material of
sufficient quality, because of import restrictions.
As I read from the post here on the lists, production in other countries
do not seem to be problematic
If this is the case, petitions addressed to the EU are quite useless,
petitions should be adressed to the Italian government. I am inclined to
sign any petition that keeps the production of gut strings going, but I
am not
quite sure, WHAT is the real nature of the problem.
It would be nice if somebody kindly could sum up the situation for me.
Thanks
we
Am 19.11.11 16:53, schrieb William Samson:
Hi Garry,
Talking of "lip smacking good", there was stuff in Nelson's navy called
'portable soup' that was made by boiling a vat of soup until it
attained the consistency of thick hide glue, then letting it cool. It
was broken into slabs that could be re-constituted by the addition of
hot water. I wouldn't be surprised if it was indistinguishable from
hide glue. On the other hand, the sailors enjoyed it - but then I
suppose it was nice compared to weevilly biscuits and salt beef that
had circled the globe several times. Also they wouldn't have lived
long enough for the prions to take effect.
Bill
From: Garry Warber<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 13:09
Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc.
William,
Hey, welcome to the mindset in the states... We are not known as
"yanks" for nothing. :-) You are right, "loose lips sink ships", more
or less. Of course, there is that prions not being harmed by cooking
thing. But as far as I know, only one guy here thinks hide glue is
"lip-smacking good!" :-)+LOL...
Garry
-----Original Message----- From: William Samson
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 3:18 AM
To: [1][email protected]
Subject: [LUTE] Re: gut string, etc.
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: William Samson<[2][email protected]>
To: Garry Warber<[3][email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 19 November 2011, 8:12
Subject: Re: [LUTE] gut string, etc.
>>Is hide glue now also banned in the EU?
SHHH!!!! I hope none of these Eurocrats is reading this list!!!
This'll give them the opportunity to appoint dozens more overpaid
officials who get bonuses for imposing bans and senseless rules and
regulations. Remember the 'straight banana' fiasco? Now they are
denying they ever tried to ban curved ones . . .
Still, the great thing about hide glue is that you can make your own
by
boiling up roadkill in a secret location where the thought police
can't
find you.
Bill
PS Orwell's '1984' was a long time coming, but it's with us now -
metrication, never ending wars, three political blocs (take your
pick),
'Newspeak', CCTV cameras everywhere, political correctness . . .
PPS Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean . . . AARRRGGGHHH!!!!
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