I cannot cite my source, but somebody VERY much into strings making suggested to use hands cream (Nivea is very good and cheap over here) on overspun strings. It stops the ringing and the too long sustain, like it happens on - say - 10-years old strings. I tried it and had good results. Luca Edward Martin on 24/05/12 15.33 wrote:
Hoppy used to use Lanolin rubbed into his Pyramid basses, but that was 29 years ago. ed At 06:20 AM 5/24/2012, William Samson wrote: 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 [1]<edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp> To: William Samson [2]<willsam...@yahoo.co.uk>; baroque lute list [3]<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][4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [6]e...@gamutstrings.com voice: (218) 728-1202 [7]http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id60298871&ref=name [8]http://www.myspace.com/edslute [9]http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin References 1. mailto:edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp 2. mailto:willsam...@yahoo.co.uk 3. mailto:baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 6. mailto:e...@gamutstrings.com 7. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id60298871&ref=name 8. http://www.myspace.com/edslute 9. http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin
