Thomas,
For once I was too brief - I thought I'd mentioned the surviving fixed pitch
instruments, but I see I didn't (oops, that was what I meant by comparative
working). As to the carry I'd say it was based less on hearing habits
than actual auditory phenomena. We know that low frequencies
Subject: Antwort: RE: Gutsy stories
Dear Rob
the implication of smaller holes in the bridge would be either the old
lutenists used a higher tension than we do or the strings they used would
be made of a different material. I've read somewhere in an article
guessing
the gut strings would
on hearing habits formed in the
romantic period.
Thomas
Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 01.02.2005 10:06:27
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Thomas,
As David said, high tension = thick string, given a pitch. But I yet
question
Dear Martin,
Like you I don't knot the strings at the peg, but in 55 years of stringing
guitars I've found that back looping the string around the peg puts a bit
of friction on it without having a full tension crossover that can cut a
string. By back looping I mean bringing the bitter end
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 3:26 AM
Subject: Antwort: RE: Gutsy stories
Dear Rob
the implication of smaller holes in the bridge
would be either the old
lutenists used a higher tension than we do or the
strings they used would
be made of a different material. I've
:
Thema: RE: Gutsy stories
A luthier once told me that many of the original bridge string holes are
too
small for the diameters we choose for 'modern' gut. Is this true, and if so
what are the implications?
Also, many luthiers drill bridge holes on their instruments for wound
synthetic strings
tensions including Mersenne on my web
site: Http://home.planet.nl/~d.v.ooijen/david/
David
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:26 AM
Subject: Antwort: RE: Gutsy stories
Dear Rob
the implication of smaller holes
should tend to
leave more significant traces than organic material like gut.
Best wishes
Thomas
Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 31.01.2005 17:02:20
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Thomas,
I think the German Baroque
To: Michael Thames; LGS-Europe; Lute net; Edward Martin
Subject: Re: Gutsy stories
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
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:20 AM
Subject: RE: Gutsy stories
A luthier once told me that many of the original bridge string holes are
too
small for the diameters we choose for 'modern' gut. Is this true, and if
so
what are the implications?
Also, many luthiers drill bridge holes
January 2005 08:38
To: 'Lute net'; Rob MacKillop
Subject: Re: Gutsy stories
Rob,
Widening a hole is easy, narrowing it is tough. I note that your email
domain is rmguitar. If your background is guitar you should realize that the
strings pass over a saddle on your guitar, but go directly from
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Sent: 29 January 2005 20:20
To: Michael Thames; LGS-Europe; Lute net; Edward Martin
Subject: Re: Gutsy stories
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
Interesting, Martin. Thanks for that. It is an interesting problem which
will probably never be resolved.
Rob
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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.
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