>" I wonder whether the D'Addario string was titanium T2 nylon with purple
haze?"
"Purple Haze"? If that is a special Jimi Hendrix Classical guitar
string, it seems like fusion gone totally amok.
No, this D'Addario string is just rectified nylon, which gives the
illusion of being more harmonically true; seeming to have less
extraneous noise, or perhaps less of the feeling of musical
"deadness" that I can't escape sensing from nylon strings, on even
the best lutes. It is still essentially a cold sound, wrong color:
"... tend to find them coldish sounding (bluish transistor-like),
particularly when a lutenist uses them with warm loaded basses
(reddish valve-like,)"
-Perfect description of nylon vs. the 2nd course gut on my lute. But
the brightness of the overall sound makes this tolerable- for now- to
my ears. Sometimes one puts up with a marginally acceptable sound
until cumulative annoyance makes them suddenly intolerable. I would
like to get some of the new Nylgut before this event occurs.
Dan
> Dear Dan
> I am glad this may be a help, but I see you have far more
> experience of nylon strings than I have, so you may not come to quite
> the same conclusions as I did.
>
> I wonder whether the Adario string was titanium T2 nylon with purple
> haze? If so it might have something in common with Titanium Nylon
> fishing line. It would be quite low density allowing a thicker string
> for the same weight (as I mentionned, once before). However, I think
> the T2 could seem quite reserved, if compared to the NNG; or the NNG
> might be heard as quite bright when compared to Ti Nylon (which ever
> you are used to, possibly).
>
> The NNG go down to 1.04, I think.
>
> The US distributor seems to be
> [1]http://www.aquilausa.com/
> but I don't know whether they will have the new string.
>
> Best wishes from snow-sludgy Paris
> Anthony
>
>
> Daniel Winheld
> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:12:34 -0800
>Thank you, Anthony- just the kind of report that you do so well, and
>your results will spur me on to get some of the new nylguts (Shall we
>just call them "NNG"?) - chanterelles for my new workhorse
>Renaissance lute and as far down as possible on some of the others-
>4th course & possibly 5th, if they go as thick as about 1.05 mm.
>For the last month or so I have been using plain nylon on the R-lute
>chanterelle, as even the most durable guts have all shredded their
>way to Gut String Heaven- so the blending of that string with the
>all-gut rest of the lute matters very much. The best nylon
>chanterelle by far that I found was a .46 mm (.018") by D'Addario
>that a student of mine found at a guitar store- but they have just
>stopped making that size. I have been surprised at how different in
>quality, feel, and other subtle factors that nylon strings from
>different sources can be from each other. I
> was coming to really like
>the D'Addarios.
>Anyone know who is dealing the new Nylguts in North America?
>Thanks,
>Dan
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