Silk strings are made by Aleksandr Raykov (lutenist and gambist) somewhere near Syracuse, NY. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:05 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings > Dear Paul, > > I may be out of date then. I thought I remembered hearing something of > this at the recent LSA festival but I may very well have been recalling an > earlier mention. If anyone in the US is making silk strings it would > likely be Dan since he's already in the string business. I've been curious > about them since first reading the discussions here. > > Regards, > Craig > >>I hope your information is breaking news, what I know is that he was't >>interested anymore in working with silk. He promised to try again, but I >>don't know how serious he was. >>Anyway his silk strings were VERY promising, apart from a few problems. I >>guess he is the guy who could create the first modern set of really good >>low-tension silk core (early-romantic) guitar bass strings. And enable us >>to >>open up the real world of early guitar sound (what you hear up until now >>is >>a total fake). >>PP > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer > 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. > Signup at www.doteasy.com > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
