As I said before, I use Dan Larson's gimped strings for mandolino and archlute bases... and they seem to be very long-lived indeed. I personally like these strings very much. And yes, they are as you describe them. On Dan's earlier gimped strings the wire was often detectable on the surface of the string. With his current version, you only feel the smooth gut surface. These strings are also very pretty to look at since you can see the spiral of wire through the gut.
Best, Eric Craig Allen wrote: >Ed wrote: > > >>Wound 6th courses do not last as long as gut strings, believe me. I think >>it is because in a wound string, you have 2 moving parts.... the metal >>winding, and then the floss core. They are actually moving parts, where in >>a gut string, the gut fibers are homogeneously bound. Gut basses last >>(seemingly) forever. >> >> > >Have you had any experience with the gimped string? If I recall this is a gut >string with a single wire wrapped in a longish spiral. I have the same problem >Michael does with the wound strings, particularly on the fifth course, wearing >out right around the third fret. > >As a side note, has anyone experimented with making a gimped nylon, nylgut or >carbon fiber bass string? > >Regards, >Craig > > >___________________________________________________________ >$0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer >10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. >Signup at www.doteasy.com > > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > >
