> the temporary >solution! A sporting goods store had fishing line of 20lb test and .017in >(.43mm). I didn't want to spend $8 US for 330 yards, so the store gave me 10 >yards of it from a spare reel without charge. It works! It is holding pitch >as it stretches just as well as the nylgut Aquila's on the rest of my >courses. Not that I suggest fishline as an alternative, it definitely >doesn't have the quality of sound. But the sound is surprisingly good and >quite adequate for practice. And with ten yards of it I can supply the >entire community with back up chanterelles <g>.
Carbon fishing line was all the rage a few years back. Even famous lutenists were using it. I bought a spool of it and thought it sucked. I gave it away. But like you said, for practice, it works. -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
