Hang on a minute! I never said that Dowland said that all strings were
coloured! He says some, meaning not all. My point was that as I read
his comments, it's not just bass strings which were sometimes coloured
but could be any string, including trebles. There might be all sorts of
reasons
Anthony, Are you suggesting that dyeing gut strings would somehow change their
mass?
I do not think that you can change the specific weight of gut by any chemical
means.
DD
Unless I am mistaken in my interpretation, it does seem that this loading of
leather with oxides was a sub-part of
Damian,
No I think that what they called a dyeing process may have been a
form of loading, or a charging, process: incorporating oxides,
probably does load the material, even if the person dyeing the
leather does not think of it in that way, his intention may just be
to colour the
There is no way to change the specific weight or mass of a gut
string by chemical means. If someone
were to claim that there are ways to chemically change the gut
to make it heavier, that would be classed
as some kind of alchemy.
DD
Damian,
No I think that what they called a dyeing process
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From: damian dlugolecki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Re: Double headed 12c/loaded/Demi-filé
I had forgotten about the
