Dear lutenists > i'm not talking about "the beauty of the bass" (whatever that means),=20 > what i talk about is the fact that most of us, lute players, preffer > a LONGER VIBRATING TONE.
I strongly doubt that! Many, perhaps most of us(?), used some time ago the wound pyramid basses. Those modern guitar style strings have very long vibrating tone. And most of us(?) wanted to get rid of long vibrating tones, which made an archlute or theorbo sound like a grand piano played with pedal down... Gut and its modern imitators behave much better. Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
