Thank you Mimmo for the explanation.
This fishing line thing should not mean that musical strings are the
same. It's just that I cannot afford your musical strings, at least if I
want to be able to also practice woodworking and lute building. Also,
I'd love to build a gothic harp and putting
I would like to say something in matter.
The nylon for music is not the same for fishing line, whose density is around
1.16. The density of the common musical nylon is 1.04 and it is a 6-12
polyamide. The du pont brand name is Tynex but it can be processed in
Monofilaments everywhere.
The
Let's talk numbers here.
Nylon is 1140 kg/m³, Durablend is 1150, gut is 1276 (Nylgut: 1260) and
Fluorocarbon is 1790.
(according to Karstilo's String Calculator)
This means that Nylon/Durablend are *a lot* closer to actual gut or
nylgut that Fluorocarbon is.
How it feels and sounds is
Actually, Nylon is a lot less dense than gut. To equal the tension of a
.42 gut treble I need to go up to a .475 diameter in Nylon. And about
.36 or .37 in Fluorocarbon, (which is why I almost never use it for
trebles- getting like a bad steel string in sound & feel, although not
of course in
Nylon is less dense than fluorocarbon.
Eugene
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Anthony Glass
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To: Dan Winheld
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Fishing Line Renaissance
So
It's much less dense than Fluorocarbon.
And only a little less dense than actual gut or nylgut. You will end up
with similar, just a bit thicker diameters than those.
Careful: They take a long time to settle (more than a week).
Am 31.10.2017 um 19:09 schrieb Anthony Glass:
So...is nylon
So...is nylon more or less dense than fluorocarbon? I've never used
nylon on a lute, only nylgut and PVF.
Thanks!
TG
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Dan Winheld <[1]dwinh...@lmi.net>
wrote:
Very cool discovery! Thanks. Could it be some form of the stuff
referred to
Very cool discovery! Thanks. Could it be some form of the stuff referred
to as "Carbon" or "Flourocarbon"- the KF (in gauges up to.91) made by
Savarez?
Dan
On 10/31/2017 6:55 AM, Tristan von Neumann wrote:
Hello Lutist "cheapskates",
I just got the information from the factory who produce
Thanks, that sounds helpful!
I would only string the first 4 courses anyway.
If I use the calculator, I wouldn't quite know how this feels.
Would that be a relatively high or low tension compared to other
synthetic strings?
How is the plucking experience?
Cheers,
Tristan
Am 31.08.2017 um
