Well, I obviously was mistaken in my assumption that metal frets would wear down gut strings quickly. Too bad I didn't think to try gut strings on my metal fretted lute. On May 27, 2011, at 6:36 PM, howard posner wrote:
> > On May 27, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Sean Smith wrote: > >> Guitars in the early 20th century used metal frets and gut together, I >> presume. > > And in the 19th century. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
