>The Toro brothers use indifferently beef and ram. (perhaps not >actually ram, possibly "mutton", but I am not sure about that. Ram >strings are brown simply because they do not use peroxides on it, >while they do use it on the beef gut. > >Mimmo's strings are usually semi-rectified, but this may not be the >case with the Toro brother's strings. >Also Mimmo's strong strings are unvarnished, just oiled. This might >not be the case with the Toro either. > >Perhaps Daniel can enlighten us on this last point, as he is using them. >Best wishes >Anthony
Hello Anthony- the strings seemed to be plain & untreated, don't know about the rectified part, I didn't ask, and the dealer didn't say. The surface integrity of the strings obviously had to be flawless for them to last so long without shedding, so perhaps no rectifying- but exactly true & perfectly in tune unisons. I think they are ox gut. Dan -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
