Why would you want a thinner Pistoy? If you want that, it would be best, in my opinion, to also lower the octave tension & play overall with light tension.
In my experience, to merely put on a smaller diameter Pistoy, or other plain gut, would not sound any brighter. ed At 02:37 PM 11/3/2007 +0100, Anthony Hind wrote: >To what extent would it be possible to raise the tension of the >octave to lower the tension of the diapason, so as to obtain a >thinner Pistoy instead of a Gimped or a loaded string. Could one >avoid using a Gimped or loaded string by this method? I assume not, >but I am thinking of Satoh, who I thought used relatively thin >Pistoys instead of gimped strings. >Anthony Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
