I just quoted Mimmo Peruffo about the nature of Venice strings, but then I saw that he says something similar about nylgut, which could interest synthetics users (but no doubt you will have realised this already, I admit I hadn't)
About Venice, ""Because of its nature a Venice string stretches noticeably more than a regular high twist string, which leads, under equal stress, to a somewhat thinner diameter. Hence the necessity to use a thicker starting diameter: under working stress it will settle to a diameter similar to that of a regular string's and will eventually lead to the same working tension. In practice the correct diameter of an equivalent Venice string is obtained by multiplying the plain high twist string diameter by 1.10. "" M.P. I mentioned in a previous message that several lutists had told me that nylgut was too stretchy and would tend to go thin over time. When I have substituted a nylgut top for my gut top string, in very damp conditions, I always used the same diameter as for the gut, however, I have just seen that Mimmo Peruffo states, about nylgut: "In theory a gut string and a Nylgut one should have the same diameter. But since nylgut is quite 'stretchy' we advise using a slightly thicker diameter. " He does not say whether the same multiplying value of 1.10. should be used, however. Regards Anthony To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
