I recently had an interesting discussion off list about Saverez KF strings. I had thought they were merely Saverez's own brand of polycarbonate/ flourcarbon as offered by other manufacturers. But was advised that they are in fact "multi-coated" strings, whatever that means (unfortunately the Savarez website is just as obscure in French as in English) possibly mostly aimed at the modern harp market but also have been used with some success on the 6th course of lutes.
Possibly their unique(?) construction introduces significantly more flexibility/elasticity into the string than the conventional carbonate type which seems so very stiff and rigid and this produces a better response. I'd be grateful for views of others who have direct experience of these strings. Are their acoustic characteristics anything the plastic wound NP range Saverez used to make? Before anybody tells me to use gut on basses, I often do but also have a particular reason for looking at synthetic strings with something approaching loaded gut characteristics. Martyn On 29/07/2011 08:46, Martyn Hodgson wrote: Dear Martin, Just to you: are not these KF strings merely polycarbonate/ flourcarbon as offered by other manufacturers? I got some a few years back and was disapointed that this seemed to be the case - rather rigid etc -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
