So - I wonder how many people have actually contracted mad cow disease, scrapie, CJD or other related problems? Of them, I wonder how many caught it from the production processes for musical strings? That's my first question. My second question is how many people have died on our roads over the same period? If the answer is what I suspect, whatever happened to perspective and proportion? It's a bit like looking at mediaeval paintings.
Grumpy Bill From: Mathias Roesel <mathias.roe...@t-online.de> To: 'lute list' <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 11:46 Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings Well, with sheep, prion disease is called scrapie, isn't it, and it was known long before mad cow disease turned up. Mathias > -----Urspruengliche Nachricht----- > Von: [1]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:[2]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im > Auftrag von R. Mattes > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. November 2011 11:27 > An: lute list > Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:08:14 +0100, Luca Manassero wrote > > Dear List, > > as Mimmo explains in a video (unfortunately in Italian) on his > > facebook page, the original beef gut regulation in EU was due to fear > > of the so-called "mad cow" disease transmission. > > Excuse my ignorance, but since when are gut strings made out of beef gut? I > always assumed that Aquilla's gut strings are made from sheep gut. > > > Cheers, Ralf Mattes > > -- > R. Mattes - > Hochschule fuer Musik Freiburg > [3]r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu 2. mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. mailto:r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
