[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread wolfgang wiehe
@cs.dartmouth.edu Betreff: [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Curtis, at Aquila USA. I do not know if he has them in stock yet. Last time I heard from Curtis, he was still awaiting delivery from Italy. Remember, it often takes more than a month for mailing something from Italy. At least

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Hind
Envoye le : Lun 20 decembre 2010, 3h 31min 16s Objet : Re: [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Curtis Daily of Portland, OR reports that he does not know as yet when he will receive a shipment of NNGs. Luckily, those most worthy are given them by the string gods, and have

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Mimmo Peruffo
, 2010 1:47 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Dear Mark They are available here in Europe, I saw quite a good stock at Wolfgang Frueh's when I got several strings; but Mimmo apparently sold all his stock at the Greenwich

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Hind
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[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread gonzornumplatt
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[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Hind
agno3ph...@yahoo.com Envoye le : Lun 20 decembre 2010, 22h 25min 01s Objet : [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Anthony, I don't know if this would be of any use to you, but I have found one (and only this one!) type of close-wound overspun string to sound acceptable on my Baroque

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Edward Martin
. Thanks again, Anthony __ De : Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net A : Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com Envoye le : Lun 20 decembre 2010, 22h 25min 01s Objet : [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Anthony

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-20 Thread Anthony Hind
Winheld [1]dwinh...@comcast.net A : Anthony Hind [2]agno3ph...@yahoo.com Envoye le : Lun 20 decembre 2010, 22h 25min 01s Objet : [LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle Anthony, I don't know if this would be of any use to you, but I have found one (and only

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
Thank you, Anthony- just the kind of report that you do so well, and your results will spur me on to get some of the new nylguts (Shall we just call them NNG?) - chanterelles for my new workhorse Renaissance lute and as far down as possible on some of the others- 4th course possibly 5th, if

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread Edward Martin
Curtis, at Aquila USA. I do not know if he has them in stock yet. Last time I heard from Curtis, he was still awaiting delivery from Italy. Remember, it often takes more than a month for mailing something from Italy. At least, that is my experience (when Mimmo mails something from Italy,

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread Anthony Hind
Dear Dan I am glad this may be a help, but I see you have far more experience of nylon strings than I have, so you may not come to quite the same conclusions as I did. $ I wonder whether the Adario string was titanium T2 nylon with purple haze? If so it might have

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread David Tayler
407 is such a good pitch for lute. At 08:33 AM 12/19/2010, you wrote: Dear luthenists Since I believe many gut users will be tempted to use the New NG for Chanterelles on their lutes, I decided to test them that way, while keeping all my other strings in gut : my trebles in

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
I wonder whether the D'Addario string was titanium T2 nylon with purple haze? Purple Haze? If that is a special Jimi Hendrix Classical guitar string, it seems like fusion gone totally amok. No, this D'Addario string is just rectified nylon, which gives the illusion of being more

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
407 is such a good pitch for lute. Don't be so darn cheap. Cough up another ยข2 and you can have 409, which is even better. Getting close to winter solstice- watch out for seasonal affective disorder and wandering frets. -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut test as Chanterelle

2010-12-19 Thread gonzornumplatt
Curtis Daily of Portland, OR reports that he does not know as yet when he will receive a shipment of NNGs. Luckily, those most worthy are given them by the string gods, and have generously reported their virtues. Thank you, Ed and David. Mark Seifert Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com