Dear collected wisdom,
sEASonal greeTing to evERybody whom it concerns! May your days be
bright!
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Best wishes,
Mathias
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Again, some gutsy stories for those who are still doubting wether they
should change to gut or not.
In Holland we have a passion season: many performances of the St. Matthew
and St. John Passions by Bach just before Easter. Before I changed my
archlute to gut I was affraid of the passion season.
David,
I find your enthusiasm for gut a very good thing, and I think it is
exciting for you to share with us your positive experiences with gut. I
have no arguments at all, and I have been using gut exclusively for the
past 8-9 years.
It is to bad that gut has a bad reputation for tuning.
Dear Sean,
I used double strand frets on my lutes for years - they do buzz a bit when
they are new and in my experience there is no trick in the tying to stop
that.
After playing for a while the double strands bed in - get flattened slightly
at the points where the strings touch - and then they
dear david -
i enjoyed reading your letter.
there is a french group called the dufay collective which uses an oud
with gut strings - at least, i think that's the reason their oud sounds
so good - very piano, i would say; passionate but understated. they
also do some frenetic numbers which
At 07:57 AM 4/11/04, you wrote:
Dear Sean,
I used double strand frets on my lutes for years - they do buzz a bit when
they are new and in my experience there is no trick in the tying to stop
that.
Thank you Denys,
My problem is that they usually need a change shortly before concerts which
tend
In a message dated 4/10/04 4:33:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Would there be an authority there who really has the know-how tying double
frets? I mean, who's done it before and ends up w/ minimum buzzing. It is a
presentation I certainly wouldn't want to miss.
To
dear kenneth -
i had always assumed that double frets were a no-no. what's the
advantage of having them?
sincerely - bill
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In a message dated 4/10/04 4:33:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Grant Tomlinson out there teaching double-fret tying sounds like the
perfect answer! Hooray! No, we'll never be completely authentic but each
step seems to shed some unexpected light on something else. Funny how that
works ;^)
Bill,
Many pictures show double frets on 6c lutes. One of the
Dear David,
thanks for keeping us informed about your gut feelings :-)
I always wanted to try out gut strings, but I think some work
on the bridge, nut and pegs of my 8-course would be necessary.
However, I don't want to do that myself and there's no lute
builder next door... How much is the
In a message dated 4/11/04 4:04:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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i had always assumed that double frets were a no-no. what's the
advantage of having them?
Bill:
On the contrary, and as Sean has pointed out, there are many examples in art
iconography already starting
In a message dated 4/11/04 9:57:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I have found gut to be more stable than synthetic strings. I think
the quality processing has improved, but I also think we are learning how
to use it, and how to tune it keep it in tune.
True! In
I have double frets on a 6c with the early-style deep neck, a copy of
the M. Tieffenbrucker which Giuseppe Tumiati made for me--I asked that
it be as close to the original as possible, and so I thought I'd try
doubled frets. They're much thinner--about .65-.75mm and less
graduated, allowing a
You can also tie two single frets and put them together. This way you
can use a very slightly smaller gage on the nut side one to avoid
buzz, but basically, like Denys says, they'll stop buzzing after
being broken in.
Dear Sean,
I used double strand frets on my lutes for years - they do buzz a
Richard Crashaw
THE DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES.
MUSIC'S DUEL.
NOW westward Sol had spent the richest beams
Of noon's high glory, when, hard by the streams
Of Tiber, on the scene of a green plat,
Under protection of an oak, there sat
A sweet lute's master : in whose gentle airs
He lost the
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