And still about synhetics: David T. (dt) wrote here lately that Mimmo's nylgut strings have some overtone problems, some uneven(?) behaviour. Is that something that is generally noticed or found? Or was that only dt's private feeling? Mimmo, do you have any idea about dt's comments of this?
Arto PS Planning to order more gut strings... A new world to me... Quite different, quite wonderful... ;) And complicated and worrying... On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:31:23 +0300, wikla <[email protected]> wrote: > Dearest lute gang, > > one question about the "carbon" string material (=high density hydrocarbon > polymer): > > I have been using it much, but I have always ordered it from lute string > makers. But as far as I know, this material was developed for a non lute > world (fishing?). So, does anyone here really know, if the lute string > "carbon" and the fishing line "carbon" are the same thing and the same > quality? If yes, please let me know, where to get this quality "fishing > carbon"? I guess the fishers order their stuff in 100's of meters, and to > me a couple of meters is the maximum per one string. In the fisher's way, > those "unpackaged" strings could be _very_ economical to us lutenists? > > Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
