Personally I love the singing sustain of the ones I have on my lute now, but for many lutenists the elasticity is difficult to deal with, both in terms of how it calls for a change in playing technique, and also how they tend to stick on the nut. However, I also loved my loaded Venice gut, so the second option is also alright with me. Trueness of string is of course necessary, but possibly difficult to predict. I suppose it may be difficult to obtain even or homogenous mixtures of polymer and copper, sometimes just necessary to select the best ones? But I suppose the traditional testing between stretched hands (or similar) won't work for very elastic strings? I may have been very lucky as all mine were very true.
Best wishes Anthony [1]Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Le vendredi, février 3, 2017, 8:50 AM, Rob MacKillop <robmackil...@gmail.com> a écrit : Second option for me. Rob MacKillop > On 3 Feb 2017, at 07:29, Mimmo Peruffo <[2]mperu...@aquilacorde.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion Arto. > Unfortunately i cannot do it > I already image how confuse the thing will be with the customers. > This mean the eford to mannage twice products and honestly I do not > like to add cofusion in the factory and with customers already stressed > by me! > > I should do a choice and in fast time: is it better a more elastic > string like these are (whith problems related to the fact that maybe > stretch tooo much and that the sound is too bright) or it is better to > switch to a less elastic plastic support with the advantage that it > stretch less, the sound is darker and with less sustain? > Hard to do the choice: both solutions are ok; i already tried the > second option that is similar to the loaded gut strings > Even Anthony Bailes suggested me the second option. > > Strings or not to strings? this is the question > > ah ah > (my poor english at work) > Ciao > Mimmo > > ps > which are your suggestion guys? > > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > From: Arto Wikla > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 9:46 PM > To: Mimmo Peruffo ; [3]baroque-lute@cs.dartmouth.edu > Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Baroque Lute Stringing > > Dear Mimmo, > > if you decide to make the loaded nylgut strings (CD) less elastic, I > hope (and wish and urge ;-) ) that you keep also the original elastic > version in your repertoire! They work exceptionally well on my Harz > arclute, great stuff. > > And big thanks for your invaluable work! > > Arto > >> On 02/02/17 14:03, Mimmo Peruffo wrote: >> Well, seeing this post I have the idea to switch to these stiffer > ones. >> at the end of the day they are closer to those loaded strings made of > gut. >> I will do some samples in advance. >> Mimmo > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > -- References 1. https://yho.com/footer0 2. javascript:return 3. javascript:return 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
