Bruno
Yesterday, I was with a player who has just changed back to nylgut,
from carbon fibre. He told me that carbon was too slippery to the
touch and not very subtle in sound. According to him, Nylgut was
closer to gut from that point of view. Personally, I have never used
carbon fibre, but I have used nylgut on the top string. However,
although it doesn't break, it gradually stretches, and then seems to
go out of tune. I do agree, Jim, that it is best to avoid metal
wounds on the 4th and 5th, but I don't like them on the 6th or 7th,
either.
Anthony
Le 9 juin 07 à 05:38, Edward Martin a écrit :
> Bruno,
>
> I used these strings years ago. They are durable, and have a loud
> sound,
> and are very stable in pitch. That is the good part.
>
> For the bad part, they do not "feel" good to the fingers, and have,
> in my
> opinion, a very nasty sound. If I were to use carbon now, I would
> start at
> the 4th course, as the trebles are too bright & strident, in my
> opinion.
>
> ed
>
>
>
>
> At 10:48 PM 6/8/2007 -0300, Bruno Correia wrote:
>> Does anybody in the list use carbon strings? I changed my nylgut
>> set for
>> carbon but I'm experiencing some troubles with the second course.
>> Sometimes
>> when I play, both strings get too close on the fingerboard,
>> resulting in a
>> bad tone. The first and second courses are very thin, 0.37 and
>> 0.41respectively, my lute has 59 cm of string lenght. Is it OK for
>> the
>> first
>> course to be a little over 4 kg? Is there anything to help to get
>> a better
>> grip on the string since carbon has a very smooth surface?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
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