Dear Mimmo, Firstly I’d like to congratulate you for inventing a new type of bass strings, as those of us who would like to use plastic equivalent of gut had very little choice until now. Your CD strings sound nice with quite solid fundamental. The only problem that I found disturbing is their elasticity. I choose gauges using your advice, but they still tend to buzz against adjacent strings. I tried them on several lutes and only on those that have wide spacing I was able to play cleanly. In this case maybe your idea of using a stiffer plastic blend could be a good one. I can’t speak for everyone, but for me some loss of brightness wouldn’t matter at all. Just my two cents ;) Good luck and all the best!
Jaroslaw > On 02 Feb 2017, at 07:20, Mimmo <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there is no problem to switch to a more stiffer plastic blend. The > problem is that we lost a bit of brightness. Is it a good idea ? I do not > know, people has the wound strings sound in comparation. > Take care > Mimmo Peruffo > >> Il giorno 01 feb 2017, alle ore 23:34, Matthew Daillie >> <[email protected]> ha scritto: >> >> Of the main copper-wound strings available, the fullest sounding and >> brightest are the Kürschner followed by the Savarez, then the Aquila Ds and >> lastly the Aquila DEs, which are pretty dull (and are no longer being made >> although several retailers still have quite large stocks available). >> >> As far as I am concerned the jury is still out on the Aquila loaded nylgut. >> Many of us have high hopes but there are production problems (there has only >> been one batch so far and many diameters are unavailable) and some strings >> can have considerably sideways amplitude when plucked (even causing them to >> catch neighbouring strings!) as well as intonation issues (but that is also >> true of a lot of wound strings). >> >> Best, >> >> Matthew >> >>> On 01/02/2017 22:25, David Rastall wrote: >>> It seems I am back playing Baroque lute once again, after rather a long >>> hiatus. It’s been long enough that I have forgotten some of the points of >>> conventional wisdom concerning stringing. I’m playing an 11c lute >>> currently strung with silver-wound basses and Pyramid nylon mids and >>> trebles. I’m not so much bothered by the sustain of the nylon strings, but >>> if you folks can refresh my memory: what is the best choice of basses to >>> get a sustain which is not downright thunky or chunky, but has shorter >>> sustain than the silver-wounds? >>> >>> David R >>> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
