Dear Mimmo, Thank you for this information. I'm glad all the gauges of the new loaded nylgut strings will be available again soon. Your suggestion to compensate for the extra amplitude by using higher tension makes sense but will you be making gauges above 2.2 for the 13th course of a baroque lute for example? Could you explain why the thicker gauges look as though they are all of the same diameter? There is no difference in colour either which one would expect if there was more copper powder to make them denser. Are you planning to make longer strings at some point for theorbos? Best, Matthew
> On Feb 2, 2017, at 7:20, Mimmo <mperu...@aquilacorde.com> wrote: > > Well, I can add a few informations > There are no production problems it shelf. I had an extruder broken so I was > obliged to wait the time to fix it. After that I finished the raw material. I > received it a week ago. > They has more amplitude in the vibration whose problem is mostly because one > should compensate the lack of tension when the strings are under tension. In > practice they became thinner that any wound strings. In short, if the > equivalent gut by calculation is 145 I raccomand to install a 150 instead. > So under tension the final gauge will be the suitable one. > Yes, there is no problem to switch to a more stiffer plastic blend. The > problem is that we lost a bit of brightness. Is it a good idea ? I do not > know, people has the wound strings sound in comparation. > Take care > Mimmo Peruffo > >> Il giorno 01 feb 2017, alle ore 23:34, Matthew Daillie >> <dail...@club-internet.fr> ha scritto: >> >> Of the main copper-wound strings available, the fullest sounding and >> brightest are the Kürschner followed by the Savarez, then the Aquila Ds and >> lastly the Aquila DEs, which are pretty dull (and are no longer being made >> although several retailers still have quite large stocks available). >> >> As far as I am concerned the jury is still out on the Aquila loaded nylgut. >> Many of us have high hopes but there are production problems (there has only >> been one batch so far and many diameters are unavailable) and some strings >> can have considerably sideways amplitude when plucked (even causing them to >> catch neighbouring strings!) as well as intonation issues (but that is also >> true of a lot of wound strings). >> >> Best, >> >> Matthew >> >>> On 01/02/2017 22:25, David Rastall 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 >
