Or, As I enjoy assuming, the "old ones" used the best they had, and if
they'd had epoxy glue and nylon strings that's what they'd have used... :-)
Things can get endlessly circular in these beliefs. I just like how well
the early music is written! The stuff plays itself without a lot of
"interpretive gimmicks." I'm all for re-creating their sound as close as we
can, for others. For myself, a totally modern lute is just ducky... :-)
Garry
-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Turovsky
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:27 AM
To: Martyn Hodgson ; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu ; andy butler
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
There is a great likelihood that "our" gut is rather acoustically different
from "their".
Lets not forget to use the honest modifier "approximation of".
RT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "andy butler" <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
The superiority of gut is chiefly that it was the material used by the
Old Ones. If we have any pretensions to attempting to reproduce the
sounds these early lutenist composers expected and their auditors
heard, it is necessary to employ the same string materials.
MH
--- On Tue, 30/8/11, andy butler <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: andy butler <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011, 9:27
David van Ooijen wrote:
> The basses are shortish, so a higher tuning would be better,
actually.
> If the instrument is tuned to g', gut diapassons are possible (if
cost
> is an issue use fret gut, it really is so much better than any of the
> modern materials), otherwise carbon or metal-wounds seem to be the
> best option.
Beginner's questions.
Is the superiority of gut down to the shorter sustain time
that someone mentioned earlier?
Is string damping really unpopular? (unnecessary?)
andy
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