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
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>    >
>    >
> 
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> 
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> 
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>    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
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