At 03:42 AM 6/19/2007, David Van Edwards wrote: >Apparently the large sizes have been superceded in the fishing world >fashion stakes in favour of braided strings which are stronger and >more flexible. I didn't try a braided string, but maybe I should have.
Modern braids have almost no stretch to them whatsoever. I don't think they'd make very good musical instrument strings, at least not for punteado. >When you start trawling [sorry!] round, it's whole different world >out there underwater, where they are interested in the refractive >index being close to that of seawater so the lines are invisible (the >big attraction of carbon apparently) and the amount of friction as >they drag on the bottom. Sorry indeed! You "troll" with fishing line. "Trawling" is the domain of cumbersome, towed net gears. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
