Ed and Eric, I know the gimped strings sound great. I heard one on Kenneth's lute. Have you paired these gimped strings with an octave? Any problems with intonation? I'd mostlikely pair it with a Nylgut octave. I was just at Dan's site and about to order some gimped strings, but unless I'm mistaken, these are very expensive. I'd be getting about 5 or 6 strings (for two lutes). This is a couple hundred dollars. I'm very concerned about the trueness. I found the loaded gut strings were useless when paired with an octave string. They would be in tune at the open position and out of tune at the third fret. I would pair it with a Nylgut octave. Do you think that would create problems? For example, would they go in opposite directions if the climate changed? I don't want to make an expensive mistake. TIA
>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 >> >> >> >> -- Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/
