Dear Wisdom, I am becoming confused by the terminology associated with string technology. I wonder if anybody would be kind enough to supply definitions of these terms, which crop up from time to time? High-twist gut Catlines Pistoys Venice strings Lyons Loaded gut Gimped Open-wound Over-wound You might also care to add any others I should know about. Thanks! Bill Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media -----Original Message----- From: David van Ooijen <[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> Sender: [2]lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 22:22:56 To: lute<[3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: [LUTE] Re: brass strings on 15th century lutes On 9 July 2012 21:48, David Tayler <[4]vidan...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Theoretically, a length of wire could be covered with gut or silk to > produce a string with ideal properties, and strings used on some > non-western instruments use this type of string--the wire is on the > inside, so it does not affect the pluck. However, no one makes this > lute string, Dan Larson makes Gimpoed (gut on metal). Savarez makes gut on carbon (I'm sure I have the details wrong here, but that was what I was told and shown last week, but frankly, I wasn't all that interested ...) David -- ******************************* David van Ooijen [5]davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* To get on or off this list see list information at [6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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