As far as I know Hoppy plays Pyramid strings and uses oil to get them sound "older".
Thomas Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 15:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In a message dated 1/1/2005 10:46:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > how about lanolin, olive-oil or even (gak!) lard? > > I have heard that Hopkinson Smith uses lanolin oil on overspun bass strings > to get a more gut-like sound. > > Kenneth Be > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
