-- Cheaper option, and actually a bit better in sound than Sofracob plain gut: (Sofracob) fret gut (you'd be surprised how many pro's do this anyway).
Thanks! That's the kind of thinking I was looking for- I've already cheated with fret gut for courses where it should be "illegal" when caught short for a gut string at an inconvenient moment's notice. I may even have some fret gut to play with already- but I'm also hoping to hear if anyone can recommend, say, Savarez copper wound vs. Nylgut overspun for excess brightness or vice versa- or whether any of the synthetic monofilaments work tolerably, although I don't think I could stomach the appearance of 6 or 7 of those bleached skull dead white nylguts spanning almost 100 cm. in their typical ghostly array. Another not option are the new Type C loads- just got this email from Curtis Daily: "The new Type C are available and are supposed to be very good, but they are also incredibly expensive. I recently priced out 6 lute basses for someone at $319.75. I won't be stocking them at those kind of prices and will only be getting them when someone orders them." -- David - has a 61/106cm archlute with single basses I see we are in the same ballpark. Is yours based on a particular historical model? Mine was just a salvage operation, (done as a favor), on an old, small 10 course. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html