Reminds me of the cover to this book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Accomplishments-Suspiciously-Hard-Verify/dp/1449401023
Chris --- On Tue, 8/30/11, Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > From: Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? > To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, "andy butler" <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk>, "Roman > Turovsky" <r.turov...@verizon.net> > Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 7:52 AM > > Well, I've heard this suggested but, > apart from the 'loaded' gut > possibilty, I've not seen much hard > evidence that modern low twist gut > is significantly different to the earlier > atrings. > > MH > --- On Tue, 30/8/11, Roman Turovsky > <r.turov...@verizon.net> > wrote: > > From: Roman Turovsky <r.turov...@verizon.net> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? > To: "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk>, > lute@cs.dartmouth.edu, > "andy butler" <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> > Date: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011, > 12:27 > > 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" <[1]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> > To: <[2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; > "andy butler" > <[3]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 <[4]akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> > wrote: > > > > From: andy > butler <[5]akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> > > Subject: > [LUTE] Re: long strings? > > To: [6]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 > > To get on or off > this list see list information at > > [1][7]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > -- > > > > References > > > > 1. [8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > -- > > References > > 1. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk > 2. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > 3. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=akbut...@tiscali.co.uk > 4. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=akbut...@tiscali.co.uk > 5. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=akbut...@tiscali.co.uk > 6. http://uk.mc263.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > 7. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
