Hi David, I'm hugely impressed with the new Aquila Loaded Nylgut - see their website for details. After three days they settled quickly into tuning, and I rarely have to tweak them. Good sound too.
Rob MacKillop > On 1 Feb 2017, at 21:25, David Rastall <d_lu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > It seems I am back playing Baroque lute once again, after rather a long > hiatus. It’s been long enough that I have forgotten some of the points of > conventional wisdom concerning stringing. I’m playing an 11c lute currently > strung with silver-wound basses and Pyramid nylon mids and trebles. I’m not > so much bothered by the sustain of the nylon strings, but if you folks can > refresh my memory: what is the best choice of basses to get a sustain which > is not downright thunky or chunky, but has shorter sustain than the > silver-wounds? > > David R > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
