> It should be noted that the momofiliment for nylon strings is > not being made exclusively for instrument strings. The price > of nylon strings is kept down because the great volume of this > stuff is being produced for industrial purposes.
I've tried fishing line before. Very bad as a lute string: thuddy tone and untrue. If you use it in an emergency, don't expect much. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html