Hi Richard,
I am still astonished: my convintion was that more than 280 Hz x mt of
breagking index was not possible to do.
Things were so, instead.
I have checked accurately the lute top string manufacturing ( that employ 2
guts...) and the chemical treatment (Alun, alkali etc..). So I have seen
than on my lute of 63.5 cms of vibrating string lenght they broken instantly
at c, a fourth higher the g! Sometime to c#.
The goal of the question concerne the surface of the top gut strings. my
idea is that we are in wrong: the well polished surface on such thin strings
is a mistake, I think: they last very poor than a string only 'half-
rectified'. In other world with a no perfect smooth surface but sufficient
to make it true. It is incredible to verify how their sound is better than
of a string of the same gauge but make perfectly smooth! Why this hapened? I
have no answer. perhaps the broken superficial microfibers do not work and
make like a dampers in the sound......
This is the experience that I have make recently: I think that need to stop
the micrometer -era and switch to new ideas.
I am developing new solutions that can make true (not false gut strings) but
with a very low polished guts.
Mimmo
