It really depends upon application and luthier, even amongst those with a great deal of hide glue experience.
Best, Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of sterling price > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:31 AM > To: Garry Warber; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings? > > 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
