Concerning gut on top, synthetic elsewhere:
My experience has been that the gut strings stabilize much more
quickly than nylgut. If I replace a gut treble, the new string attains a
stable enough pitch to play through some pieces without retuning within a
couple of hours of playing; they're good in another day. Also, if a peg
slips and you lose all tension, you can get the string up to pitch virtually
immediately. Whereas, nylgut keeps stretching for weeks, and if the peg
should slip after you've finally gotten it stabilized, it's like starting
with a new string.
Leonard
On 2/4/05 4:14 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems ironic for people who think gut has the best sound, to sacrifice
> that sound on the chanterelle, where it probably has the most noticeable
> effect... It almost makes more sense (unless you can afford to buy all gut
> strings)
> to have nylgut or nylon (which can literally last years) on every course but
> the 1st and 2nd; and to use gut on those strings, where the melody is most
> often found. Just an idea...
>
> James
>
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