There's:
Szz [not worthy of the word]
Sstain [not quite enough]
Sustain [just right]
Sustaaayayayayaiiiinnn [too much]
Sustain-Z [electric guitar].
My understanding is that it's a spectrum and we're a picky, fickle
bunch.
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 1:57 PM Roman Turovsky
<[1]r.turov...@gmail.com> wrote:
aren't lutenists switching to gut out of sustainophobia?
RT
On 6/30/2019 3:46 PM, Matthew Daillie wrote:
> I find that sustain is a major factor in the choice of a lute.
Obviously we are not talking grand piano sustain, but an instrument
with good sustain makes all the difference, especially for playing
polyphonic music.
> Clearly appropriate acoustics can make or break a lute, (however
good the instrument and the player) but in the right environment the
sound can also carry astonishingly well.
>
> There might actually be a correlation between sustain and the
amount of dishing. A well respected lutenist, with vast experience
of teaching internationally, observed that lutes with inordinate
dishing (a practice which is apparently common in some parts), and
so with the strings at a significant height above the soundboard,
frequently lacked sustain.
>
> Best,
> Matthew
>
>
>
>> On Jun 30, 2019, at 19:51, Ron Andrico <[2]praelu...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>> Sustain does not and probably never did factor into the plucked
string sound of the lute. The sound is immediate and rich in
overtones, but ephemeral and does not travel well.
>> RA
>>
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