> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:44 AM, mjlh...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote:
>
> Following on from the discussion about strings and perhaps a bit of a
> non-sequitur, the well known painting by Antiveduto Grammatica shows a
> lute-shaped instrument with 5 courses on the fingerboard and 9 open
> basses.
Hello there,
I would like to do a precisation in matter of the whole gut.
Actually, what I have written in the past is that it is not possible to employ
whole gut because the gauge that it is possible to obtain for example with 3
whole guts (i.e. the violin 1st) do not produce a gauge of about
Dear Andreas,
In fact I agree with some of your assessment of pitch limitations for
particular string length: in particular when you now write 'it seems
not impossible to have an archlute with a chanterelle in g' (340 Hz)
with a string length of 73 cm' . This string length and
Following on from the discussion about strings and perhaps a bit of a
non-sequitur, the well known painting by Antiveduto Grammatica shows a
lute-shaped instrument with 5 courses on the fingerboard and 9 open
basses. The two lowest bass courses i.e.8 and 9 appear to be thinner
than the other
Dear Martyn
In my opinion, your argument takes the wrong way:
Our modern gut strings are more and more reconstructions of the old ones - but
we donât have the experience of the old string makers. I remember that Mimmo
said some years ago that itâs impossible to make strings from whole guts.
