Hi Eric,
the question of the superficial broken fibers is a situation well know by
other stringmakers like Dan, for example.
I think that lute, mandoline etc top strings must be not polished like now
all we make but half-polished, so one can feel by fingers the superficial
thin grain. This solution make the strings similar to strings obtained by
the method employed in the past but permit to safeguard the string to be
false and to be too broken into the fibers.
The question is if : is a luteplayer prone to will accept that a string is
not perfectly smooth?
I make some of these low rectified strings like violine top strings, after
to give the information to the musicians.
Which are the difference?
If a standard vernished string last, as example 20 days, in this case they
will last 4 times more, and this on an oiled string and... the sound
improve!
Why? I am still working to find a possible explanation.
Mimmo
