dear david - i wonder if this "dead" quality of nylgut you mention has something to do with a plucked style of playing as opposed to plectrum. i'm working on the "world's most perfect pick" at the moment and mimmo's strings have stood up to no end of abuse in the process. they still sound great. i've never tried gut so i can't compare it to nylgut but i think it's many times better than conventional synthetic strings.
there's no denying that gut strings make beautiful music but for me, nylgut will do "...till the real thing comes along." sincerely - bill On Marted́, mag 25, 2004, at 07:16 Europe/Rome, LGS-Europe wrote: >> to share their experience with nylgut. It seems that those >> experiences = >> have been overwhelmingly positive > > I think only those that like nylgut have responded. No offence, but I > strongly dislike it. I dislike the tone colour, the falseness in high > positions, the unreliability of pitch (uneven streching), and the > feel. For > me it is a 'dead' > string: no character and the worst characteristics of nylon (plastics > feel > and uneven strechting) and gut (falseness) > combined. Perhaps it is the best thing after gut, but it is no > comparison, > it doesn't even come close. But as I said: no offence to those that are > happy with it, this is just my > experience, and, admittedly this is limited to three years nylgut on a > romantic guitar, the occasional try on a renaissance lute and what I > see and > hear weekly from my lute pupils playing on nylgut. Many of which, by > the > way, are changing to gut, these days. :-) > > David > >
