Dear Andrew, Take a look at Ed Durbrow's interview with Paul O'Dette in the September 2004 LSA Quarterly where he confirms he uses Nylgut for performing.
I use Nylgut too, and love the sound it makes on my lutes, but I would hate to be taken too seriously. Best wishes, Denys ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Stephan Olbertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: sofracob prices > Do any serious players use nylgut synthetic strings? perhaps more for > renaissance than baroque lutes... > > Andrew > > On 7 Feb 2007, at 12:02, Stephan Olbertz wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > the bridge of my baroque lute came off recently (ouch), but it has > > been > > fixed and I would like to take the "opportunity" to put new strings > > on and > > maybe switch to gut. Dan Larsons strings would sum up to about 360 > > $ (ouch > > again), Aquila is about the same. Does anyone know what Sofracob > > charges > > for a (13c) set? I couldn't find any information on the web... > > > > Regards, > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
