I agree totally with you and I will add: I don't want to spend so much money in fragile and expensive strings to play most of the time only for myself, and I dont want to spend so many time to tune my instruments, while my playing time is limited (as I have a daily job outside of music...). I attend some concert of early music and players spend some time to tune before, during and after playing, and public was quite bored with that, and I guess they would have made no difference hearing the music on synthetic strings, only some very few specialists are able in a concert hall to make the difference (even on some recordings...) I have heard Paul O'Dette in a recital with nylgut strings and his playing was divine... V.
-----Message d'origine----- De : lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] De la part de William Samson Objet : [LUTE] Re: long strings? I agree that gut strings are very pleasant to play on, but the biggest contribution to the sound of the instrument comes from the musician. A great lutenist can draw a much better quality of sound from a poor lute with nylon strings than a poor lutenist can from a very fine lute strung with gut. Ideally we want everyone to be a great lutenist, playing on gut strings - but I suspect that isn't going to happen any time soon. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
