Klarinet Archive - Posting 000651.txt from 2004/08

From: Joe Vaccarino <clarinet@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Period Performance in Wagner?
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:14:11 -0400

Lelia Loban wrote:

>(Yipes, I hope Shadow Cat didn't read that!) =A0Kevin (my violin-playing
>husband) says that modern and period gut strings have always been made of
>sheep gut, not cat gut. =A0According to our friend the violin repairman,
>nobody can quite figure out where that cat gut myth got started, though
>it's been following fiddlers around for more than two hundred years!

The answer to that interesting question can be found on the following web
site.

http://www.labella.com/index.asp

You will have to "Enter" the site and navigate to the "Our History" link.

Regards,

Joseph D. Vaccarino
Jay Vee Productions, Inc.

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