Dear All,
In fact, what I thought I normally found was that gut strings get settled in
faster, but are more prone to movement than synthetics on a day to day basis,
where synthetics can take weeks to settle down (gut minutes/hours), but once
they do they can be settled for ages. I thought (and
Dear Benjamin and all,
I have enjoyed this discussion, with its many threads, on gut
strings. I have used all-gut stringed lutes for going on 18 years
now, and I am still not completely decided on the best manner in
which to string a lute.
I do have 2 instruments strung in synthetic strings
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Envoye le : Vendredi 5 octobre 2012 20h33
Objet : [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
Funny, I was thinking about the same thing today. My instruments are
never in tune when taken
No, it isn't a new problem. This is what Mattheson writes (1727) answering
Baron in his book Ephorus, naming disadvantages of the lute:
Because of the many strings, and special strings (gut-strings) which depend
more on stable temperature and humidity than other instruments (to stay in
tune).
Yes, varnishing helps, but doesn't totally stop a string absorbing humidity. It
rather protects from wear and tear.I tried them. They sound duller, inferior
to normal gut and are not historical strings. This is what MP writes about them
on his website:
Gut strings are varnished in order to
The beauty of gut sound is greatly compromised by gut's insufferable
intonation, especially on the octaved courses.
RT
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On Oct 6, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Jarosław Lipski jaroslawlip...@wp.pl wrote:
Yes, varnishing helps, but doesn't totally stop a string absorbing humidity.
It
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Objet : [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
The beauty of gut
This discussion reminded me of the 10 metres of Sofracob, fitting for
the first course of my 13ch lute, that still were in a box in the
cupboard. I made me a chanterelle and it is rather good, still not
broken after 3 days, though with a strangely sticky and hard touch for a
nylon player. The
2012 22h08
Objet : [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
This discussion reminded me of the 10 metres of Sofracob, fitting for
the first course of my 13ch lute, that still were in a box in the
cupboard. I made me a chanterelle and it is rather good, still not
broken after 3 days
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EnvoyA(c) le : Samedi 6 octobre 2012 21h14
Objet : [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
The beauty of gut sound is greatly compromised by gut's insufferable
intonation, especially on the octaved courses.
RT
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On Oct 6
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Objet : Re: [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
I find
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Objet : Re: [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
I find gut's overtone poverty sensuously insufferable as well.
RT
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On Oct 6, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Anthony
Dear fellow lutenutters,
I can think of a good reason for synthetics. I live in the tropics, Singapore,
to be precise, where the temperature is usually in the 70% - 85% range, and on
rainy days it goes up to 100%. gut trebles don't last more than a few days
here. 0.75 and larger seem to be ok
You don't have to live in them tropics to have these troubles.
The same goes for New York City, known for extreme humidity swings.
Ben's axe may simply have unstable pegs, or structural issues.
RT
On 10/5/2012 5:09 AM, Edward Chrysogonus Yong wrote:
Dear fellow lutenutters,
I can think of
Funny, I was thinking about the same thing today. My instruments are
never in tune when taken out of the case for the first time everyday
day. I'm on sinthetics (Aquila), but I believe on gut the result would
be much worse, the weather in Rio is very close to Singapore...
Hi All
My lute originally (made 2010) had carbon strings and I changed to nylgut. The
tuning, tuning, tuning every 5 mintues drove me nuts and I did want more of a
'gut' sound. Living in Melbourne (Aus) in a house with little heating or air
condiditoning the temperateure jumps like a
My $0.02, living in Sydney Australia, is that nylgut mitigates some
of he effect of fairly extreme weather changes. We can have a thunder
storm roll in and have the temperature drop by 10+C in the space of as
many minutes. Gut just gives up in those circumstances.
Part B of this is the effect
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Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 8:04 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: What is the point of synthetics?
Hi All
My lute originally (made 2010) had carbon strings and I changed to
nylgut. The tuning
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