Arto,
No problems with nylgut at all. Recently I was playing in Caccini's
opera. No time to tune - playing all the time. At least not for the
theorbist, only strings tuning their guts frequently, harpsichord during
the interval (I had 2 minutes when he finished), but everything in tune.
You just have to compromise when to put them on.
Best
Jaroslaw
W dniu 2010-06-07 21:53, wikla pisze:
And still about synhetics:
David T. (dt) wrote here lately that Mimmo's nylgut strings have some
overtone problems, some uneven(?) behaviour. Is that something that is
generally noticed or found? Or was that only dt's private feeling? Mimmo,
do you have any idea about dt's comments of this?
Arto
PS Planning to order more gut strings... A new world to me... Quite
different, quite wonderful... ;)
And complicated and worrying...
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:31:23 +0300, wikla<wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
Dearest lute gang,
one question about the "carbon" string material (=high density
hydrocarbon
polymer):
I have been using it much, but I have always ordered it from lute string
makers. But as far as I know, this material was developed for a non lute
world (fishing?). So, does anyone here really know, if the lute string
"carbon" and the fishing line "carbon" are the same thing and the same
quality? If yes, please let me know, where to get this quality "fishing
carbon"? I guess the fishers order their stuff in 100's of meters, and to
me a couple of meters is the maximum per one string. In the fisher's way,
those "unpackaged" strings could be _very_ economical to us lutenists?
Arto
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