Hi Ed, Age indeed . . . OH! You mean the strings?
Yes - Dirt and sweat seem to tame them. I was wondering if the process could be speeded up by rubbing, say, beeswax into an overwound string. Anybody tried that? Bill From: Ed Durbrow <edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> To: William Samson <willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>; baroque lute list <baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, 24 May 2012, 2:36 Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Zingy strings On May 23, 2012, at 11:31 PM, William Samson wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if anybody had found a good way to take the worst of the > boom and everlasting sustain out of overwound basses? Age will help. To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
