Dear All, Just a reminder. Cat gut has nothing to do with cats. My understanding is that cat gut is short for cattle gut. The word cattle, at least in old English, can mean cows and/or sheep. Gut for lute strings is made from sheep gut, i.e. cattle gut, i.e. cat gut.
Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'lute@cs.dartmouth.edu'" <Lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:20 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: (LUTE) Ownership > 1 7-course Alto (56 cm?) > 1 10-course R-Axe (63 cm) > 1 11-course Tielke (69 cm) > 1 13-course swan-neck Hoffmann (70/98 cm) > 1 14-course Liuto Attiorbato (67/100 cm) > 1 Wandervogellaute (6 strings) (never cared) > 1 6-course Vihuela (60 cm) > 1 Biedermeier-guitar - does this count? (64,5 cm) > > A wife and one 10 year old son. No living reservoire for "catguts" - I > still buy Aquila (but whenever I feel the need to menace a cat I tell > her "you could be my next treble string" :-)) > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Arto Wikla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. September 2005 11:17 > An: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: (LUTE) Ownership > > > > 6-course lute, 63cm:1x1+5x2 > 7-course soprano lute, 44cm:1x1+6x2 > 8-course lute, 62.2cm:1x1+7x2 > 10-course lute, 61.5cm:1x1+9x2 > > archlute, 67cm:1x1+5x2/100cm:8x1 > French theorbo, 76cm:8x1/140cm:6x1 > chitarrone (overo tiorba), 86.7cm:7x1/158.7cm:8x1 > > chitarrino, 53.5cm:1x1+3x2 > > 8 tarantulas, each has 8 legs > Finnish-Lappish dog, 1 year, 4 legs > > Cheers, > > Arto > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
