I have carbon on 4 upper courses of my 72 cm baroque lute and I am perfectly happy with both sound and stability. RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruno Correia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LuteNet list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: [LUTE] Carbon strings > 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. > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
