I'm a bassoon player in my regular life, so I've got a rackett and a dulcian that fell into my lap and I need to figure out how to make reeds for before the pandemic allows the concert where I'm supposedly going to debut them.
I have actually played some gut string before-- I played violin as a child, though I haven't in a long time, and a distant relative by marriage-and-now-divorce owned a relatively prestigious string shop in the UK. When we went to visit, he let me scratch away a bit on a quarter size Stradivarious stringed with gut. (While holding the scroll, as if I was suddenly going to accidentally fling it across the room 😂)
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I have actually played some gut string before-- I played violin as a child, though I haven't in a long time, and a distant relative by marriage-and-now-divorce owned a relatively prestigious string shop in the UK. When we went to visit, he let me scratch away a bit on a quarter size Stradivarious stringed with gut. (While holding the scroll, as if I was suddenly going to accidentally fling it across the room 😂)