Dear Lutenists
I have been using Venice gut twine (rather than high twist
gut) on my Baroque lute for position C6 and C5 (Meanes) as well as for
most Bass octaves, for their excellent flexibility and so good
harmonicity. I know that some Lutenists similarly use Savarez Kf for
their brightness and thinness in such positions (compared to thicker HT
gut or standard NNG) and that Mimmo has developed Sugarcane based NNG
for exactly similar effect instead of regular NNG. Personally, I would
prefer to stay with gut in such crucial but non fragile uses, but
wonder whether anyone has tried Aquila unsplit gut in these positions,
and if so did it show improved harmonicity and possibly better focus
compared to regular HT gut? Presumably it would be just as thick as HT
gut in the same position so shouldn't be any brighter but the structure
is different and the fibres might move more freely giving some sort of
improved harmonicity or less phase issues. I seem to remember similar
remarks about the effects on the signal of singlecore compared to multi
strand interconnects (unsplit gut compared to split gut, as it were?)
but such analogy is probably quite mistaken.
Any ideas or experience on this sort of use would be gratefully
received.
Regards
Anthony
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