Whoops! Meant to go to "Reply All". Brad Brad McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:30:50 -0800 (PST) From: Brad McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Strings in general (Was: English guitar stringing) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi: I've been wanting to try LaBella's silver plated guitar strings on my (non-historical) citterns, but local music stores say that laBella is very unresponsive when it comes to requests regarding packages of single strings (which is what I'd need). I used to use theirsilver plated mandolin strings and just loved the sound. Anyone know how to get some results from them? Brad David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank Nordberg wrote: > Never tried pure silver strings, but La Bella has some silver plated > mandolin sets. They produce a really wonderful brilliant tone, very > different both from bronze and nickel/steel wound strings. > Dogal also have made silver-plated copper bass sets for mandolins etc for many years. It's the extra weight of the copper which really makes the difference, the silver is there to stop your fingers turning green. I use Aquila Nylgut Alchemia hard tension classical strings. I don't know any other string in the world quite like these. The trebles have a sound more like gut than any other nylon subsititute and even the guitar G is bright and clear. The basses are a microfilament core of the same material, wrapped in solid silver, not plated. They are quite amazing but do not last very long. Given the price, that's a pity. They do lute sets and also ukelele - apparently the uke world finds them about the best strings ever made for bringing out the volume and tone which modern nylon misses. www.aquilacorde.it They sell by credit card, and the strings come most beautifully presented in a shipping carton, like getting a box of chocolates! David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web --
