Must have the recipe. Do you think they may have used 'cloves' or other sweet smelling spices to clean their instruments? Let's face it, some of the great houses must have stunk a bit.
Which type of Cat do you think provided the best gut. Ginger Tom? Tortoise Shell? or a bog standard feral moggie, I reckon the latter. Right, must have a lie down the nurse has arrived with my tablets. -----Original Message----- From: David Tayler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August 2007 21:32 To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Historical gut strings. It is the taste; the earlier ones are saltier. Check out the cookbook "Tastar de code": "The taste of the strings." dt To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
