Dear Daniel and Ernesto
As I told the list a while back, after making a stiffer new
Nylgut, Mimmo (in his rare spare time) is working on a more flexible
(slightly elastic) version for thicker strings. There is already
excellent feedback for some prototypes. These would be useable on 5 and
6 course and possibly 4th (presumably having characteristics close to a
flexible Venice) but a slightly different variant would be good for
Theorbo.
Mimmo is still working on a loaded version of this elastic NG, which
could mean that we may, hopefully, hear less wirewounds on lutes in the
near future.
Unfortunately, meanwhile, I have the impression that loaded gut strings
have remained unavailable.
Benjamin Narvey's latest baroque lute concert here in Paris testified
to the superb harmonicity of these loaded Venices which, through their
ultra low impedance, can allow a skillfull luthenist to achieve a rare
and wonderful singing cohesion between bass and mid lines (in spite of
Benjamin's fairly high bass string tension).
A truly superb sound quality and performance achieved again by
Benjamin!
Regards
Anthony
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De : Daniel Winheld <[email protected]>
A : "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc : Bruno Fournier <[email protected]>; Martin Shepherd
<[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
Envoye le : Mercredi 9 Novembre 2011 18h57
Objet : [LUTE] Re: Savarez KF dealer in USA?
Ernesto-
Good point- I have been wanting to get feedback on the New Nylgut; they
have been out for over a year now & I have had mostly good results with
them and would like other's opinions. On my tenor vihuela they have
really enhanced the overall sound, albeit not quite as purely beautiful
as gut. The New Nygut works best on this vihuela (Chambure copy by
Harris & Barber) down to the 4th course; but it is inferior to the .95
KFG unison 5th course and out of the question for the 6th, where like
Martin Shepherd I also prefer the KFG.
On my Baroque lute (an old Robert Lundberg model, needs all the help it
can get) I am not completely sold yet, but I will be keeping them on
for a while. New Nylgut is fine right down to & including the 5th
course, then the KFG starting at the 6th. My 6 course & 8 course
completely gut except for the 1st on the 8 course, and it transitions
to the gut courses better than the other synthetics I have used in the
past.
Dan
On Nov 9, 2011, at 9:20 AM, [1][email protected] wrote:
> Have you tried the New Nylgut from Aquila?
> Lutenists here in Brazil love them!
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> Em 09/11/2011, `as 15:09, Bruno Fournier escreveu:
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> I've always managed to order directly from Savarez.A In Canada
there
> are no representatives for Savarez lute strings, just guitar, so
> they've always accepted to sell directly to me.
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> Bruno
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> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Martin Shepherd
> <[1][2][email protected]> wrote:
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> The Savarez web site is rather vague about the density of these
> strings (the KF "multi-coated" strings from .95mm onwards) and
even
> implies that the density is about the same as gut. A But my
> experience has been that they are more dense than gut, a good
> approximation being to use a diameter about 10% less than you
would
> use with gut. A I have found they work quite well - on my 6c lute
at
> the moment I have a 5th course of .95mm and a 6th of 1.25mm (both
> octaved).
> Martin
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> On 09/11/2011 15:30, [2][3][email protected] wrote:
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> Is there a Savarez dealer in the USA? I am looking to try the
> Alliance KF strings on a renaissance lute (unless members of this
> newsgroup warn me not to..) And how do I calculate thicknesses to
> order?Thanks, trj
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