Nigel
The problem is that Mimmo Peruffo has not yet commercialised his new loaded gut. Nor has he commercialised his open-wound strings. Perhaps you could try gimped strings, but if the tubbiness is tonal, you could try the Venice equivalent by Aquila, they are definitely more rich in the high frequency harmonic component (Venice are twin, most Pistoy are tress). Indeed, my lowest gimped diapason on a Renaissance lute sounded a little tubby, until I swapped a number of the middle ones with Venice, and somehow it lightened up the sound even of this lowest bass string. In fact this was to such an extent that a person who plays my lute regularly thought I had changed the bass string too.
Regards
Anthony


Le 23 oct. 07 à 23:24, Nigel Solomon a écrit :


I have just put gut strings on the long basses on my theorbo (170 cm), they all sound great except the 13th and 14th courses which sound a bit "tubby" The diameter is 1.24 (14th) and 1.12 (13th) (4 kg per string) . Perhaps they are a bit thick, should I use some sort of loaded gut for the bottom 2?

Nigel



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