On Monday 07 August 2006 00:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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You are destroying an
essential element of the
character of your wonderful instrument. Furthermore,
you are denying
yourself and your audience the chance to devellop a
taste for what is an
Dear all,
about thirty minutes of playing, large tears started to roll down her
cheeks, and she stopped playing and said, I'm sorry, it's just that I
miss the beautiful sound of the gut strings. Her teacher looked at my
I have a comparable experience with my 6 year old son. One day
Chris
about gut strings in the past: our gut is _not_ their
gut. (i.e. the exact same type of string that was
made back in the day.) Therefore, whatever you decide
I'd say that the gut strings of all the different gut string makers of
today, with their variety of products with quite
Hi all,
we've been in the subject before, many times.
As most of you, I've heard people playing lutes strung in all sort of
materials, both in concerts and recordings, with good and bad instruments.
I've also used both and had the chance to experiment a bit.
There's no point in arguing about
I cannot agree more.
The only objection I would have to Ariel's point is that gut gives a
different feeling for the player. When playing gut I feel a bit as if
the fingers would be glued to the string I am trying to plug while gut
players don't like the feeling of syntetic materials.
Best
I have a comparable experience with my 6 year old son. One day
somebody wanted him to play some lute pieces by Waissel. But he
handed him an edition in French tablature!! At once my son threw himself
to the floor, weeping and swearing, because he plays it only from
German tablature.
Ariel
I personally do not find strings material to be as relevant, but I do get
your point, and I like myself more the sound of gut that of synthetic, but
they're sometimes not as practical.
It's true, life is all a matter of priorities. I have come to a point in my
playing where I
On 7/8/06 19:55, Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a comparable experience with my 6 year old son. One day
somebody wanted him to play some lute pieces by Waissel. But he
handed him an edition in French tablature!! At once my son threw himself
to the floor, weeping and
August 7th, 2006
Dear Lutenists:
With the brewing controversy of gut vs Nylgut strings, I would like to
try gut strings on my Lute when it arrives. Where can one purchase mail
order gut strings for a Bass Rennaissance Lute?
I play my 12 string guitar with
Rebecca Banks wrote:
What do
gut strings sound like?
Rather like nylon.
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Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Rebecca Banks wrote:
What do
gut strings sound like?
Rather like nylon.
to be precise, broken nylon strings will possibly be as mute as broken
gut strings.
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Amen.
RT
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From: ariel abramovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lutenet lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:40 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: (was) Strings for chittarone
Hi all,
we've been in the subject before, many times.
As most of you, I've heard people
sorry, the therefore is mistaken.
I agree that gut strings were different, and surely they were because all
the
machines for creating super equal strings were not available ofcourse. The
sound however will still be more or less the same. Even when strings
perhaps
less equal in the past,
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From: Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 6:03 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gut Strings for Lute
Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Rebecca Banks wrote:
What do
gut strings sound like?
Rather
August 7th, 2006
Dear Lutenists:
I have done some research on the Internet and found AquilaU.S.A. makes
gut and silk strings . . . it will be interesting to experiment and see how
they sound. Of course after phosphorous winds it will be interesting to
hear the different
Dear All:
Some organs may have been clumsy, but there is a playable organ in
Switzerland -- it's been recorded several times, including at least once by E.
Power
Biggs -- from before 1400 and it does not appear clumsy at all. Let's not sell
early craftsmen short!
Cheers,
Jim
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