And the patients then emerge from surgery with their problems "rectified." AJP
-----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Taco Walstra Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:35 AM To: R. Mattes Cc: lute list Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings On 11/16/2011 11:26 AM, R. Mattes wrote: Yes, I had exactly the same question. Apart from this: is gut not used in many medical situations to string people together after cutting by a surgeon for example, or is this perhaps done these days with other materials (nylgut? ;-) ) Taco > 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 > r...@inm.mh-freiburg.de > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --
