I wrote: > > How can one tell whether a string is carbon-fiber or nylon? > > One possibility to do it: > 1. Measure the length, diameter and weight of the string (or some > cut piece of it) > 2. Use my "sub-calculator" in > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html#P1 > 3. If the density Kg/m3 given by my calculator is about 1000, it > is nylon, if it is about a little less than 1800, it is "carbon". > > So carbon is nearly twice as heavy as nylon.
Hey! There is an easy way: Just put the string to water. If it clearly sinks, it is hevier than water, which is just as heavy as nylon! So the string material is hevier than nylon and water. Perhaps "carbon", or at least "non-nylon". And if the string about stays in whatever deepness you set it, it should be nylon! :-) All the best, Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
