I have wound gut on courses 11 to 14 on my new bass rider lute, and they sound wonderful! Not too bright, not too dull, good transition with the quite openly wound higher basses (Kürschner luxline). Most surprising was the perfect blend with the normal high twist octaves, sounds nearly like one note. Best regards Stephan
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im Auftrag von Mimmo - Aquila Corde Armoniche Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. August 2017 19:59 An: Dan Winheld Cc: Lute List Betreff: [LUTE] Re: KF vs. new Aquila bass strings Thanks Dan. 'The Lute in its historical reality' will be soon update; in fact, there are some new things: 1) Lute chantarelles: I was able to do a few experimental lute 1st string starting from a lamb- whole gut of 1to 3 months of life (see Attyanasius Kirker, Rome 1650) . The samples were even on their whole lenght (not conical or tapered, I mean: see Capirola 1517 ca.); the breacking point was around 36 Kg/mm2; the gauges, -after a slight hand-polishing- were between .39- .42 mm. The sound? Marvelous (isn't interesting?). 2) Vihuela unissons/octaves: I have to re-write some points because they were not well explained. Yes, I still think that the Vihuela 5th, 6th bases were with octaves, not in usissons. 3) 17 th c. lute basses (loaded): I have a few more historical informations to add to the section. 4) There are much more historical evidences concerning the use of wound strings on German d -minor lutes of 11 & 13 courses. The first is of 1716 (Thanks to Andreas Schleger researching). There are others: one of 1730's; one of 1740's; two of 1760's; one of 1790's. Unfortunately is not weritten if the wound strings were done on gut or silk cores. Take care Mimmo Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 31 ago 2017, alle ore 18:20, Dan Winheld <dwinh...@lmi.net> ha scritto: > > And not to be forgotten, the great work of Dan Larson of "Gamut" Strings- using real gut subjected to great research & creativity to bring us lute strings- esp. those troublesome basses- that come closer to a "real" thing! > Dan > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
