Looking at all the discussion we've been having about gut strings - to
load, or not to load, to wind or not to wind, to twist or not to twist
. . . - one thing that hasn't come up for a while is how different
modern gut seems to be from the old stuff.
When you look at old pictures
Dear all,
noboby has told us yet by which EU-regulation
(kind of [e.g. directive?], year, number, date of publication, article
no.)
the production of gut strings should be prohibited. By now we only have
the personal statement of Mimmo Perufo that strict European
legislation (?) forbids the
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De : henner.kahl...@t-online.de henner.kahl...@t-online.de
A : Lutenet lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Envoye le : Lundi 21 Novembre 2011 15h55
Objet : [LUTE] Gut strings
Dear all,
noboby has told us yet by which EU-regulation
Dear lutenetters of America,
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I have found out throught the french lutenet, that gut strings are
still being made in Morocco:
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[1]http://www.pure-corde.com/en
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Bruno Cognyl-Fournier
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[2]www.estavel.org
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References
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Dear collective lute wisdom,
is it true that the production of gut in Europe will be prohibited by
European law?
As stated on Aquila's web page the production of gut strings and import
of raw materials will be prohibited:
So now I have one lute strung in gut (delightful!) and am wondering
what folks do with all the extra string hanging from the peg box (I
don't wind much on the pegs and simply trim the extra when using
synthetic). If gut tends to break (I haven't had it on long enough to
know if
Has anybody experience of strings by this specialist Italian company offering
'Highest quality ram's and ox's gut strings for Renaissance, Baroque and
Classical performance'?
On their website they only show price lists for violin and gamba family
instruments but offer 'Special ox's
Martyn
I only know the MP ones. I nearly tried some Universale, but never
got round to it.
I think that the price of gut is not all that high, if you consider
the research (that we don't pay for).
Perhaps, if more musicians showed interest in gut the price might
come down slightly,
is there a mathematical relationship between humidity/temperature/frequency and
string diameter that one can use to retune gut strings predictively ,as a
process of successive approximation? for instance, I played in two different
locations on two consecutive nights. The first night was awful and
