David
When I think about it, I suppose stringing an archlute in gut would
be similar in difficulty to striging a Baroque lute, if string length
and the number of courses is the problem.
Thus if you can keep an archlute strung in gut, it should be possible
to do the same with a Baroque lute. I hope this reasoning is correct.
Regards
Anthony
Le 8 févr. 07 à 10:11, LGS-Europe a écrit :
>> I have not used gut strings on a Baroque instrument, however. It
>> would be best to ask advice from those that have. I know that David
>> van Ooijen amongst others, uses all gut on his Baroque lutes.
>
> Dear Anthony
>
> It's nice to know one doesn't even have to play a single baroque
> lute to be
> known as a player who plays more than one. I must confess to having
> rather
> many lutes, and, yes, all are strung in gut from varous makers like
> Gamut,
> Aquila, Kuerschner, Cathedrale and Sofracob, but none are baroque
> lutes,
> actually. I'll quote you on my CV from now on.
>
> But more to the point, I tend to use Sofracob for courses two to
> four and
> for octave strings on the basses. They're cheap, have a good gutsy
> sound and
> come in 3 meter length. I you make a large enough order the 10 euro
> handling
> fee is no problem because the strings cheap. Furthermore, with
> _really_
> large orders you'll get a discount. I even use 0.40 Sofracob as a
> first
> course for studying purposes. Life expectancy anything between 0.3
> sec to
> three weeks. Sofracob strings have a good balance between mellow,
> warm sound
> and clear attack with 'clean' sound. Not as warm as Gamut, but
> treble gut by
> Gamut can be a bit too warm and therefore dull on some of my lutes,
> and not
> as sharp and thin as Kuerschner, although on some instruments I
> like to use
> Kuerschner for the first course.
> My baroque guitar is all Sofracob. Perfect for the instrument.
>
> David - should get a baroque lute, one day
>
>
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