: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lutenet lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Strings for chittarone
Just listened to Heringman's. The falseness of gut was utterly annoying.
RT
From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED
The problem is that there has been no professional all-gut player to date
that could back up this alleged beauty with appropriately beautiful
playing.
RT
Jacob Heringman comes to mind. Listened to Matthew Wadsworth yet? They're
both on Magnatune so you can save your money for buying
Just listened to Heringman's. The falseness of gut was utterly annoying.
RT
From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lutenet lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Strings for chittarone
I have to admit not ever hearing Jacob. Will do.
I have heard MW
Ditto Wadsworth. The c-minor Pavan is unbearable.
RT
Just listened to Heringman's. The falseness of gut was utterly annoying.
RT
I have to admit not ever hearing Jacob. Will do.
I have heard MW, but only on theorbo.
Nice cd out with Carolyn Sampson with songs and lute solos by Robert
11:05 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Strings for chittarone
The problem is that there has been no professional all-gut player to
date
that could back up this alleged beauty with appropriately beautiful
playing.
RT
Jacob Heringman comes to mind. Listened to Matthew Wadsworth yet? They're
both
Dear Kenneth and All:
So it's not just me. For some reason I cannot abide the sound of nylgut, at
least on a lute that I am playing.
Cheers,
Jim
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On Monday 07 August 2006 00:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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.
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
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,
In a message dated 8/5/2006 9:33:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a gig coming, on
vihuela, and the weather here is so humid, decided to try nylgut on that
instrument, so I put those strings on last night. It sounds terrible in
nylgut, so I will re-apply
Kenneth
tune gut strung lutes with greater ease and more quickly than lutes
strung with
nylgut.
Yes, gut needs to be tuned perhaps more often than some synthetic strings,
but it is also easier and quicker to tune. My experience, too.
David
David van Ooijen
--- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
essential ingredient of a good lute sound: gut
basses of
Dear Henner, and others
especially throughout for the bass strings ( 7th - 14th course) after trying
two gut strings I found in my stock. Gut bass strings are very expensive
and I think don't sound so much better that it is reasonable to pay so much
more. Only
Take a step back and think
Well stated, David. The stringing question of material choice will never
be settled. I am also a gut player, and I really appreciate the marvelous
sounds that one can create in gut. Because I have a gig coming, on
vihuela, and the weather here is so humid, decided to try nylgut on that
Thank you all for answering so fastly!
If I want to use fret gut I think, that I don?t have a realy fine
adjustment of the gauge of the string., so that the tension from one
string to the other will change. Do I think wrong? And how could I
calculate what gauge should I use? What would be a
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