Dear Arto, according to Makoto Tsuruta and his intuitive site [1]http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_Strings/strings_linesE.html it's the same material. As I am living on an island, it is quite easy at least for me to find fishing line. Regardless your place of residence there are many on-line shops where you could order it from. A 25 m spool Seaguar Grand Max fishing line 0.405mm diameter costs around 10 euros. That spool could give you 3 dozens of strings for a g-lute, not a bad business at all! Stathis __________________________________________________________________
From: wikla <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, June 7, 2010 11:31:23 PM Subject: [LUTE] Carbon strings? 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 [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_Strings/strings_linesE.html 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
