Oh my, Daniel, I love it. A brief lesson in thermoplastics, a description of "carbon" strings which I knew little of, and of the PBT (nylgut), as well as the contrast to gut.
Thanks for the posting. Best, Jon > For the general edification, I have posted Mimmo's US patent for the > manufacture of musical instrument strings on the "Downloads" page of the > LSA website: > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/download/index.html#patent To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html