As far as I know Mimmo has completely stopped the production of loaded gut strings and no one knows if he will ever start it again. My impression is that the answer is no. I asked him many times to make the four basses needed for my 11c and the answer has always been negative. At the end Martin managed to get 4 suitable old production loaded strings that I hope will last forever...
He was working on a sort of loaded and more elastic nylgut which should sound like the loaded gut and be reliable enough to be mass produced. Actually those kind of strings (red color too) are already available for the ukulele but till now there is no production in the gauges needed for the lute. Francesco > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Smith > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:47 PM > To: 'Martin Shepherd'; [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Re: In memoriam loaded gut > > Hi Martin, > The Aquila site indicates that the stop of production of loaded gut is > temporary and the US site of Aquila says it is special order. Is there > somewhere else that indicates this will be permanent? > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Martin Shepherd > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 6:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] In memoriam loaded gut > > Hi All, > > As the opportunity arose, just made a couple of quick and dirty > recordings on an 11c lute I made a couple of years ago (after Maler, > 69cm) using loaded gut strings: > > www.luteshop.co.uk/11c/laltesseroyale.mp3 > www.luteshop.co.uk/11c/labellehomicide.mp3 > > I am so sad that we cannot get these strings anymore. > > Martin > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
