Ok. I get it. I do like the sound of gut and will probably persevere. I am known for being stubborn anyway. Having said that I am getting a quote on nylgut for my 10 course (while keeping gut on my 7 and 8 course renaissance lutes and my theorbo)... Foolish, but what the heck, life is short (for people and gut strings).
Thanks to all for the suggestions. I just need to increase my string budget. Regards David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Mast Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 5:30 PM To: alexander Cc: Anthony Hind; Ed Durbrow; [email protected] Subject: [LUTE] Re: String hairs 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
