Actually the blu-tac while unsightly, in a blind comparison sounds an
awful lot like loaded gut!
You've got to get just the right amount on, as to not deaden the string
too much. But while I was visiting a luthier recently, we compared
blu-tack on Kurschner wound on my lute, to his with loaded gut and the
sound, if you closed your eyes, was amazingly similar!
I play with blu-tac all time. It gives a great "thud" like gut.
On 23 May 2012 15:31, William Samson <[1]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk> 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? Loaded gut
is
'way beyond my budget, so anything that would make, say,
Kuerschner or
Pyramid basses a bit tamer would be helpful.
I have heard about people who put a blob of Blu-tack on each
string
where it emerges from the bridge, but that sounds messy and
unsightly.
Hopefully there's a less cringe-making solution.
Thanks!
Bill
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