Very old news, but of corse, Dan lives just one block from me, so I often hear interesting tidbits about the business of gut.
Your Pistoy is1.84? Child's play, as the Pitoy for my 11-th course on my 11-course lute is a 2.02. Great sting, I may add! Lately, out of not purely economical reasons, I have been using beef gut. I cannot tell the difference in sound and feel from sheep gut, but they are cheaper, and last a lot longer. My 2 hank's worth! At 08:03 PM 10/22/2012, Dan Winheld wrote: >Well, that particular news is almost 11 months old- but quite >alright to give Dan Larson a plug. I just spent nearly $70 for a new >8th course "Pistoy" bass string fundamental - 1.84 mm. One string! >But I have to say it was worth it. Pulls the whole lute together, soundwise. > >Dan > > >On 10/22/2012 1:26 PM, Herbert Ward wrote: >>Possibly of interest to the list community. >>Sorry if I'm posting old news. >> >>http://gamutmusic.squarespace.com/news/string-economics-101.html >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] 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
