Well, call me gutless, but now having several instruments, some with
and some without gut, I'm not a convert and not rushing out to change
all my synthetic strings to gut. I certainly like the sound of gut,
especially on my 11 course lute playing pre-Weiss d minor tuning music
and as single strings on the basses of my archlute. For Weiss and
beyond, I have no problem with my extra thick core copper wound basses
and nylgut/nylon tops. Same goes for my Ren Lute and Baroque guitar.
Switching between instruments can be a challenge. I find the most
helpful tip to be 2-3 minutes of Bob Barto's right hand exercises
before playing anything else. It helps me find the "sweet spot" on the
finger pads and adjust for string pressure and spacing differences. For
the left hand my only issue (raised here before) is that with gut my
fingers sometimes stick to the string and can make extraneous noises,
but I don't find the technique to be much different otherwise.
Danny
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 PM, wikla <[1]wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
Dear lutenists,
the difference of touch between those two approachs of stringing
seems to
be a tricky business! I had (still have!;-) problems after years of
synthetics in starting with gut strings, but after getting some
preliminary
touch to gut strings, playing the synthetics with acceptable sound
feels
even more difficult than the move from synthetics to gut!
Any advice? Any advice other than "stay in gut/synthetics"?
Arto
PS A little similiar problem arises, when you switch between single
string
theorbo and double course lute...
PS2 recent example tries of those two
gut: [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPisQNbeZc
synth: [3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwKBSjljnc
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2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgPisQNbeZc
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwKBSjljnc
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