Arto,
I've noticed that the overtones of nylgut are not as consistent as other
synthetic materials. Maybe this is because of the textured surface. But isn't
that the point? I thought this was purposely done in order to mimic the
naturally occurring irregularities of gut.
Having said that, there is nothing at all wrong with this. Generally
speaking, the more prevalent the overtones,, the more character a tone has.
This was the whole reason for neck extensions; a long bass string prominently
exposes the second overtone (12th or 5th) which makes for a brassy tone that
can easily cut through an ensemble.
Chris
Christopher Wilke
Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer
www.christopherwilke.com
--- On Mon, 6/7/10, wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: And another question about nylguts (was: Carbon strings?)
> To: "Jarosław Lipski" <jaroslawlip...@wp.pl>
> Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
> Date: Monday, June 7, 2010, 5:45 PM
> Yep Jaroslaw,
>
> no tuning problems with nylguts! Easily in tune also
> here... But that was
> not the question. It was about dt's claim about the
> overtones behaving
> stranglely in nylgut. Any other player found anything like
> that? Any
> laboratory measurements?
>
> Just interesting, not important... Nylgut sounds nice to me
> - as any
> synthetics - actually feel better to the fingers... ;)
>
> Arto
>
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:14:22 +0100, "Jarosław Lipski"
> <jaroslawlip...@wp.pl>
> wrote:
> > 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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