Dear All,
Thanks to RS for the information. Once wound strings started to be
used, it may well have been a matter of personal taste whether this or
that musician chose to use them (and still is today). But I would just
like to remind everyone that nearly all the lute music we play was
writte
I've put my experiences of the past year and a half of playing on gut
strings in an article on my website. It's called 'Gut strings, a work in
progress' and is on my homepage: Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/david.
David
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David,
I read this article, your "work in progress", and I can thank you for
publishing it. Your experiences are very similar to mine. I have 1
lute in synthetic strings, where the others are all in gut, and I love the
gut sound as well. It is too hard to resort back to the synthetics. a
No argument here. The extended bass length is precisely for that
purpose...with the longer basses, the required strings will necessarily
require a smaller string diameter. I am uncertain if it gives more volume
and sustain, but for sure, a better clarity of pitch and sound. These
instrum
Roman Turovsky wrote:
>For those in the City and the Vicinity:
>
>Barto plays Weiss
>
>Friday Jan. 28th
>8PM
>
>St. Luke's Lutheran Church
>308 W46th St., New York City
>Tickets: $15, $10 for seniors, students, etc.
>
>
>Program (reflects the forthcoming Naxos' SLWeiss vol. 7):
>Sonata 15 in
>> For those in the City and the Vicinity:
>> Barto plays Weiss
>> St. Luke's Lutheran Church
>> 308 W46th St., New York City
>> Tickets: $15, $10 for seniors, students, etc.
>> Program (reflects the forthcoming Naxos' SLWeiss vol. 7):
>> Sonata 15 in Bb major
>> Sonata 36* in d minor
>> Sonata
>> For those in the City and the Vicinity:
>> Barto plays Weiss
>> St. Luke's Lutheran Church
>> 308 W46th St., New York City
>> Tickets: $15, $10 for seniors, students, etc.
>> Program (reflects the forthcoming Naxos' SLWeiss vol. 7):
>> Sonata 15 in Bb major
>> Sonata 36* in d minor
>> Sonata
Craig,
> Martin,
> PVF stands for "polyvinyl fluoride". I seem to remember that it is
actually "polyvinyl carbon floride" but I'm not certain.
I'm a bit confused myself, but let me quote from Mimmo Peruffo's U.S Patent
for "Nylgut" (not named as such in the patent, it is Polybutylene
Terephthal
Alain,
I agree with you entirely, although I always have to go back to my music
dictionary to look up continuo (abbeviation for basso continuo, a notation
of numbers for the intervals above the bass for accompanyment).
It may not be of help to your project but may I suggest a book that shows a
gr
