How different is that from Larson's "Gimp" strings- a wire embedded & twisted into his Pistoy high twist bass gut strings? He offers copper and silver, among others. For a while he used gold wire. Out of sight now, of course. They were fabulous; I had two at one time- they did service as 5 & 6 on my bass viol and then worked out even better as 7th & 8th courses on a 72 cm. bass lute I once had.
A report on the Asian strings would be interesting. Dan >The perfect solution for gut bass strings is the one seen in for >example in some Asian instruments, where a wire core is wrapped with >gut, silk or some other material. >I have tried some Pipa strings made like this that were very nice, >but not available in all sizes. >You get the greater strength and weight of the string without the >metallic surface. >Since there is a huge boom in baroque and renaissance instrument >making in China right now, I'm sure different types of strings could >be commissioned. > >dt -- Rachel Winheld 820 Colusa Avenue Berkeley, CA 94707 rwinh...@comcast.net Tel 510.526.0242 Cell 510.915.4276 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
