This is true. I have used nylgut extensively for years, and find similar results. It matters not if the string is pre-stretched...... if the peg slips, it even takes a while for it to re stretch
If a treble breaks in performance, I find that gut is the very best thing to use, as it stretches into pitch quicker than any material I have tried. I have found that a pre-stretched nylgut settles in tune no faster than a new nylgut string. ed martin .At 06:18 PM 5/24/04 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ed et al-- > My experience with prestretched nylgut is that it resumes its > previous relaxed length to a great extent. As I explained in a previous > post, I had a treble break near the bridge, leaving enough string to > retie it and re-use it. In the short time it was relaxed, it lost any > previous length it had gained under tension. It took, as with a new > string, several days to "settle in" to a stable condition. Fortunatley I > do not perform, or this could be a disaster! :^( > >Regards, >Leonard Williams >============================================================ >From: Ed Durbrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2004/05/24 Mon PM 12:08:46 EDT >To: lutesmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lute list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Nylgut > >============================================================ > > >-- Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202
