Once you learn to use gut, you will not want to go back. ed
At 05:25 PM 1/14/2009 -0800, sterling price wrote: >I have a Widhalm that does have fan-barring and a soundboard carefully >thicknessed as the original (assuming that the original has not been >altered over the years). It also has a bass extension based on the 1764 >Martin Brunner which is very similar to the Jauch extension. This pegbox, >as you all know, helps with the transition of sound for the basses. This >lute is much louder than my Burkholzer, but its also a bit bigger. I am >still experimenting with strings, and was thinking of trying gut soon. >--Sterling ----------------------------------------------------- Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html