Agreed. For my purposes, tuning stability and a tone quality that's compatible
with the treble strings is more of a concern than length of sustain in the bass.
Eric Hansen
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--- On Wed 01/26, Arto Wikla < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Arto Wikla [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:24:53 +0200 (EET)
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Carbon fiber strings
<br>Dear lutenists<br><br>> i'm not talking about "the beauty of the bass"
(whatever that means),=20<br>> what i talk about is the fact that most of us,
lute players, preffer<br>> a LONGER VIBRATING TONE. <br>
<br>I strongly doubt that! Many, perhaps most of us(?), used some time
ago<br>the wound pyramid basses. Those modern guitar style strings have
very<br>long vibrating tone. And most of us(?) wanted to get rid of
long<br>vibrating tones, which made an archlute or theorbo sound like a
grand<br>piano played with pedal down...<br><br>Gut and its modern imitators
behave much better.<br><br>Arto<br><br><br><br>To get on or off this list see
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