Stephen, Nylon does stretch a bit. But if you haven't seen it you wouldn't believe how much Nylgut stretches. Which is actually not made of Nylon=polyamide but of polyester. It is 10 times worse than nylon in this respect.
g On 21.04.2010, at 15:39, Stephen Fryer wrote: > Edward Martin wrote: >> No, it doesn't. >> >> ed >> >> At 12:11 AM 4/21/2010, Bruno Correia wrote: >> >>> Isn't nylon going to stretch as well? >>> > That runs totally counter to my experience with nylon strings. Nylon is very > stretchy stuff whether made into strings or fishing line or rope or Nylgut. > > Stephen Fryer > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
