[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings
-- Cheaper option, and actually a bit better in sound than Sofracob plain gut: (Sofracob) fret gut (you'd be surprised how many pro's do this anyway). Thanks! That's the kind of thinking I was looking for- I've already cheated with fret gut for courses where it should be "illegal" when caught short for a gut string at an inconvenient moment's notice. I may even have some fret gut to play with already- but I'm also hoping to hear if anyone can recommend, say, Savarez copper wound vs. Nylgut overspun for excess brightness or vice versa- or whether any of the synthetic monofilaments work tolerably, although I don't think I could stomach the appearance of 6 or 7 of those bleached skull dead white nylguts spanning almost 100 cm. in their typical ghostly array. Another not option are the new Type C loads- just got this email from Curtis Daily: "The new Type C are available and are supposed to be very good, but they are also incredibly expensive. I recently priced out 6 lute basses for someone at $319.75. I won't be stocking them at those kind of prices and will only be getting them when someone orders them." -- David - has a 61/106cm archlute with single basses I see we are in the same ballpark. Is yours based on a particular historical model? Mine was just a salvage operation, (done as a favor), on an old, small 10 course. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings
Daniel wrote: -- David - has a 61/106cm archlute with single basses I see we are in the same ballpark. Is yours based on a particular historical model? Mine was just a salvage operation, (done as a favor), on an old, small 10 course. It's a combination of my wishes and the maker's ideas, so mine was done as a paid favor. ;-) I had just one archlute 64/130cm. Good instrument, but a little too long for 440Hz. And it had to go up and down between 415 and 440 all the time. Within a day even on occasion. So I wanted/needed another archlute for 440. Hence the 61cm. The diapassons are as short as possible for single gut. Not because they sound better this way, long sounds better, but because it's easier to travel with. I don't fly much, but when I do I prefer an extra seat for the lute. This instrument in its case is just under 140cm, the other one over 155cm. Size matters in small planes and taxis. David - pics somewhere on my website, under 'Instruments' David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings
On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:38 AM, LGS-Europe wrote: > I don't fly much, but when I do I prefer an extra seat for the > lute. This instrument in its case is just under 140cm, the other > one over 155cm. Size matters in small planes and taxis. It certainly does. "Toy" planes are historically incorrect. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings
However, tiny hydrogen powered taxis existed in mini black holes for centuries. dt >On Jul 1, 2008, at 12:38 AM, LGS-Europe wrote: > > > I don't fly much, but when I do I prefer an extra seat for the > > lute. This instrument in its case is just under 140cm, the other > > one over 155cm. Size matters in small planes and taxis. > >It certainly does. "Toy" planes are historically incorrect. >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Archlute strings
one over 155cm. Size matters in small planes and taxis. It certainly does. "Toy" planes are historically incorrect. ROTFLOL! Actually, the instrument took shape in my head when I visited the instrument museum in Paris one fine afternoon before playing an evening concert on the larger archlute, having taken that on the tiny TGV. All those cute archlutes - many double first courses! David David van Ooijen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.davidvanooijen.nl To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
