On Jun 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > I don't think you are mistaken; however, that still would not > involve a chemical change of the gut material itself.
Does dyeing? The question, if I am again unmistaken, was whether a process used for dyeing might incidentally increase the density/ weight of a string. As far as I can see, adding anything to the string's innards is going to increase its density, though the increase may be negligible. Anyone who uses gut strings knows they get denser from absorbing water when the humidity rises. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
