I've heard and played a number of lutes strung all in gut that sound just fine. Where you start to get the clunky sound is on the low C on a ten course. I'm just going to assume that their strings were say, 20 percent better than ours. That would more than make gut stringing practical. Did they have other types of strings that we don't know about? It's intriguing, we need an old set of strings--maybe there were some on that Pirate ship where they found the Dulcian, after years of saying the Dulcian did not exist. dt
At 12:52 PM 2/27/2009, you wrote: >On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > > > How do you account for small lutes like the Vienna Frey, without > > the loading theory? > >Lute in A? > >In G at high pitch? > >Big honkin' monster soprano lute in D? > > >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
