How about this solution? Have two (at least) lutes, with gut on one and synthetic on the other. Do your 2 or 3 - or more - hours of practicing on the synthetic lute and then finish the day or evening with a blissful session with the gut lute. On Jan 20, 2012, at 6:40 PM, alexander wrote:
> Yes, yes, Ed! How do you apply it?! The super glue? > > A possible solution, yes. THE ONE could master a reliable skill to fix gut > strings this way, so that they still tune, do not buzz and produce funny > harmonics, and last a "couple of weeks" more then they do already, after just > a trim. A really high quality cyanoacrylate glue of well chosen thickness > applied BEFORE trimming, then a surgical trimming and sanding of the > remaining hard bump can save the string. Unless, to begin with, the string > was ran through the rectifier mercilessly and will most likely begin to > unravel in a new spot. ONE can examine the string of course with a strong > lens (better yet, a microscope) and judicially repair all the suspicious > spots. ONE can get so fed up with the whole charade, as to buy some raw gut > and twist own top string, out of a couple of guts, without sanding, and go > through the whole renaissance experience of hoping for a true string and > such. Then, one, nervously looking around and seeing all the people > trouble-free using their time aw! ay to polish their lute musicianship on the nasty synthetics, and getting some very decent results, while THE ONE is polishing a totally foreign and unrelated skills, THE ONE goes into the closet and tries one of those nasty synthetics himself, may be shacking and crying... > The life is a continuous rerun... Yasha Heifez, Andrès Segovia, Paul ODette, > David Smith... > > alexander r. > > > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:49:57 +0000 (GMT) > Anthony Hind <[email protected]> wrote: > >> How do you apply it Ed? Do you take it completely off the lute, or >> apply with extreme care and a match stick, or similar? >> Regards >> Anthony >> PS I suppose it should be really minimal, application to the whole >> string might give an interestingly stiff string? >> __________________________________________________________________ >> >> De : Ed Durbrow <[email protected]> >> A : David Smith <[email protected]>; LuteNet list >> <[email protected]> >> Envoye le : Vendredi 20 janvier 2012 13h20 >> Objet : [LUTE] Re: String hairs >> You can try a bit of superglue. >> > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
