O, my apologies, thinking Playford, writing Mace. His complaining voice just is so loud in my head... ar
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:52:19 +0000 Martin Shepherd <mar...@luteshop.co.uk> wrote: > ???? Mace doesn't mention wound strings at all. You may be thinking of > the Burwell lute book, which explains that the French removed the low > octave from the 11th course because the sound of it was too "big" (not > necessarily sustained) and smothered the other strings. I know of no > lute source which mentions wound strings. > > Best wishes, > > Martin > > alexander wrote: > > Mace in his comment regarding the "new wire wound basses", dismissed their > > usefulness on the same basis, as, according to him, the "currently > > available basses", on long lutes had too long a sustain already. > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
