Hi, I am using fishing nylon since now about 4 years with perfectly fine results. It's plain, cheap and sings pretty well. And you can easily buy more than 50 meters for about 6 Euros (at least in Italy). Of course, you have to carefully measure the string length of your new lute and use a string calculator to get the right thickness. There's an excellent free lute string calculator here: [1]http://calc.lauten.com/en/strcal_en.htm My case: I have two Renaissance lutes (6 and 8 course) tuned in "real" g (AD0Hz) with a string length of 63cm. They both use 0.45mm fishing nylon for the first course. Have fun, Luca [2][email protected] on 09/05/12 19.57 wrote:
I bought a 7c ren lute strung in Nylgut. I love the Nygut, except for the chante relle, it just doesn't seem to feel or sing as strongly as I wish - it seems thi n. Do others have this problem? If so any suggestions, I've thought of going bac k to a nylon (which would be thicker?). Thanks in advance trj -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html References 1. http://calc.lauten.com/en/strcal_en.htm 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
