As any good luthier will tell you today, hide glue is still superior to modern glue for several reasons.
--Sterling Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? 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 ; [1]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" <[2]hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> To: <[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "andy butler" <[4]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 <[5]akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > From: andy butler <[6]akbut...@tiscali.co.uk> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? > To: [7]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][8]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. [9]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- References 1. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 2. mailto:hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk 3. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 4. mailto:akbut...@tiscali.co.uk 5. mailto:akbut...@tiscali.co.uk 6. mailto:akbut...@tiscali.co.uk 7. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 8. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 9. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
