Nylon tends to be a bit more opaque than carbon but this really only shows with thicker strings. Best advice is: put it on your lute see what note you get with a certain tension. Compare to other strings of same note and tension and the thinner string will be the carbon. BTW there seem to be many types of string which are all being traded as carbon. The KF strings of Savarez are a different kind of string in comparison with for instance the PVF strings of Kuerschner which are different from the Seagur japanese fishing line which really was the first carbon string that hit the market. I remember Toyohiko Satoh importing those into Europe in the eighties. Naoki Fugii later sold these strings too. Anyway all these so called Carbon strings are heavier than Nylon so they are thinner for a given note and tension. Hope this helps. Op 3 nov 2012, om 13:43 heeft Herbert Ward het volgende geschreven:
> > Is is possible to distinguish reliably between carbon and > nylon if the string's packaging is not available? > > I've seen a knowledgeable person rub the string, but I don't > know whether he was listening to the sound, feeling the > texture, or judging some other aspect. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
