Yep Jaroslaw, no tuning problems with nylguts! Easily in tune also here... But that was not the question. It was about dt's claim about the overtones behaving stranglely in nylgut. Any other player found anything like that? Any laboratory measurements?
Just interesting, not important... Nylgut sounds nice to me - as any synthetics - actually feel better to the fingers... ;) Arto On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:14:22 +0100, "Jarosław Lipski" <[email protected]> wrote: > Arto, > > No problems with nylgut at all. Recently I was playing in Caccini's > opera. No time to tune - playing all the time. At least not for the > theorbist, only strings tuning their guts frequently, harpsichord during > the interval (I had 2 minutes when he finished), but everything in tune. > You just have to compromise when to put them on. > Best > > Jaroslaw > > > > W dniu 2010-06-07 21:53, wikla pisze: >> 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 >> >> >>
