Dear David
Thank you for your reply which shows my memory did not completely
fail me after all, but my lateral thinking nevertheless was a little
too far to the side, not to say skew-whiff!
Do you use Nick's strings mainly on the top (high-twist, or also in
the mid)? Is it fair to
I have not used gut strings on a Baroque instrument, however. It
would be best to ask advice from those that have. I know that David
van Ooijen amongst others, uses all gut on his Baroque lutes.
Dear Anthony
It's nice to know one doesn't even have to play a single baroque lute to be
known as
David
When I think about it, I suppose stringing an archlute in gut would
be similar in difficulty to striging a Baroque lute, if string length
and the number of courses is the problem.
Thus if you can keep an archlute strung in gut, it should be possible
to do the same with a
You can email them here [EMAIL PROTECTED] At one time they sold
almost in bulk, not really individual strings, but this may have
changed.
Regards
Anthony
Le 7 févr. 07 à 13:02, Stephan Olbertz a écrit :
Dear all,
the bridge of my baroque lute came off recently (ouch), but it has
been
Most people use some metal in the gut basses, such as loaded or gimped
strings. I do not think Sofracob makes those kind of strings.
One player, Toyohiko Satoh, uses plain gut, even to the 13th course. But,
Toyohiko uses smaller diameter strings, as he uses a very low tension indeed.
I use
If price is the only determining factor you could try some banjo
strings, but I understand they do not last very long.
Have a look at the prices at http://gourdbanjo.com/GBhtml/gut.html
I think you can buy Sofracob also from http://www.londonviolins.com/
Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings? perhaps more for
renaissance than baroque lutes...
Andrew
On 7 Feb 2007, at 12:02, Stephan Olbertz wrote:
Dear all,
the bridge of my baroque lute came off recently (ouch), but it has
been
fixed and I would like to take the
Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings? perhaps more for
renaissance than baroque lutes...
Not being a pro, I for one use nylgut on almost every lute,
nevertheless:
13c lute on courses 1 to 5 (rest is organic plain gut from Aquila)
8c lute
Andrew,
I know Nigel North had nylgut and Savarez
synthetics on his ten-course last time I saw him.
baroque lute I don't remember.
Chris
--- Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings?
perhaps more for
renaissance than baroque
That's serious enough for me!
thanks
Andrew
On 7 Feb 2007, at 15:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew,
I know Nigel North had nylgut and Savarez
synthetics on his ten-course last time I saw him.
baroque lute I don't remember.
Chris
--- Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL
thanks - what are you using for bass strings on the 8c?
On 7 Feb 2007, at 13:40, Mathias Rösel wrote:
Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings? perhaps more for
renaissance than baroque lutes...
Not being a pro, I for one use nylgut on
Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
thanks - what are you using for bass strings on the 8c?
Copper wound (6th to 8th courses). Oh, and I forgot to mention the 11c
lute: Nylgut for 1st to 5th courses, copper wound for fundamentals of
6th to 11th courses with nylgut octaves. Works very well.
Message -
From: Andrew Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stephan Olbertz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: sofracob prices
Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings? perhaps more for
renaissance than baroque
Denys,
--- Denys Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use Nylgut too, and love the sound it makes on my
lutes, but I would hate to be taken too seriously.
..But how are you ever going to get EM street cred if
you don't take yourself too seriously? :)
CW
PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: sofracob prices
Denys,
--- Denys Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I use Nylgut too, and love the sound it makes on my
lutes, but I would hate to be taken too seriously.
..But how are you ever going to get EM street cred if
you don't take yourself too seriously
Denys Stephens wrote:
I would hate to be taken too seriously.
For most people the problem is not being taken seriously enough ;-)
--
Stephen Fryer
**
The more answers I find, the more questions I have
Andrew,
Actually, many professionals use nylgut - Paul O'Dette, Nigel North,
Hopkinson Smith. I think (but, I am uncertain) that Rolf Lislevand uses
them as well. I know Jakob Lindberg used to use them.
I have my renaissance 8 course in partial nylgut, because I have to use
that instrument
On Feb 7, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Edward Martin wrote:
I have my renaissance 8 course in partial nylgut, because I have to
use
that instrument under difficult situations. Otherwise, I mostly
use gut,
for vihuela, 10 course, baroque guitar, 11 course, and my 13 course.
When I bought my
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