I have not tried this, as for so many years, I only use gut basses, but I know others have done this to wound strings.
At 04:20 AM 5/25/2012, Luca Manassero wrote: > I cannot cite my source, but somebody VERY much into strings making > suggested to use hands cream (Nivea is very good and cheap over here) > on overspun strings. It stops the ringing and the too long sustain, > like it happens on - say - 10-years old strings. > I tried it and had good results. > Luca > Edward Martin on 24/05/12 15.33 wrote: > >Hoppy used to use Lanolin rubbed into his Pyramid basses, but that >was 29 years ago. > >ed > > >At 06:20 AM 5/24/2012, William Samson wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > Age indeed . . . OH! You mean the strings? > > Yes - Dirt and sweat seem to tame them. I was wondering if the process > could be speeded up by rubbing, say, beeswax into an overwound string. > Anybody tried that? > > Bill > From: Ed Durbrow [1]<edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> > To: William Samson [2]<willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>; baroque lute list > [3]<baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012, 2:36 > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Zingy strings > On May 23, 2012, at 11:31 PM, William Samson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if anybody had found a good way to take the worst of > the > > boom and everlasting sustain out of overwound basses? > Age will help. > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > >References > > 1. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >Edward Martin >2817 East 2nd Street >Duluth, Minnesota 55812 >e-mail: [6]e...@gamutstrings.com >voice: (218) 728-1202 >[7]http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id60298871&ref=name >[8]http://www.myspace.com/edslute >[9]http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin > >References > > 1. mailto:edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp > 2. mailto:willsam...@yahoo.co.uk > 3. mailto:baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu > 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 6. mailto:e...@gamutstrings.com > 7. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id60298871&ref=name > 8. http://www.myspace.com/edslute > 9. http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin
