At 10:08 AM 11/26/2007, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: >At 05:29 AM 11/26/2007, Music wrote: > >Mine do hold pitch, but I use gut strings - much better than nylon for > >three reasons: they are rougher than nylon, so don't slip so easily, the > >tension is perfect for the music, and they sound better. Do yourself and > >your guitar a favour - go gut! > >I actually think gut can be a little trickier because it is denser than >nylon and thus a bit thinner at given tension and pitch.
..Or maybe it all balances out. I don't know... it all seems to work out for me somehow, whichever I have on at the time. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html