Ed wrote: > >Wound 6th courses do not last as long as gut strings, believe me. I think >it is because in a wound string, you have 2 moving parts.... the metal >winding, and then the floss core. They are actually moving parts, where in >a gut string, the gut fibers are homogeneously bound. Gut basses last >(seemingly) forever.
Have you had any experience with the gimped string? If I recall this is a gut string with a single wire wrapped in a longish spiral. I have the same problem Michael does with the wound strings, particularly on the fifth course, wearing out right around the third fret. As a side note, has anyone experimented with making a gimped nylon, nylgut or carbon fiber bass string? Regards, Craig ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
