Picture nr. 1 : Nylgut bulk strings
Picture nr. 2 : Nylgut anniversary 1997-2007

International Mark - (888261) NYLGUT

to learn more: read our FAQ

Minimum order

 40 euros (VAT non included)

INTRODUCTION

The development of a new synthetic material that can imitate the acoustical characteristics of gut but without the typical defects such as high cost, short string life, and severe instability to changes of climate, has always been a fundamental goal of our research. Nylgut® represents the fruit of this research and is a good synthesis of the acoustical properties of nylon and of PVF (carbon) strings.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND FIELD OF APPLICATION

Nylgut®, distinguishable by its milk-white color, has the same gut's density (gauges are the same of the gut) and acoustical qualities similar to that material. It should be considered the first "synthetic" version of the natural product.
Other strong points of Nylgut® are its' elevated resistance under tension -greater than that of gut- but even more important is its extraordinary immunity to changes of climate, considerable superior to that of nylon and gut, thereby guarantying an insuperable stability of tuning under normal conditions.
Nylgut® can be used advantageously for the substitution of nylon and gut strings for plucked string instruments such as lutes, guitars and harps(modern harps included). For example, Nylgut® strings are particularly well suited for the 1st through 5th courses of the renaissance and d minor-baroque lutes, FRETS INCLUDED.

Special length (200 cm): see the NGE type.

Notice:
Nylgut® is liable to suffer from cutting edges. Before stringing the instrument do make sure the nut and bridge are free from sharp edges and the nut grooves not too deep and perfectly smooth.
You can get rid of sharp edges with very fine grit sandpaper (600, for example) or the finest steelwool (000).
The best sound quality develops when the strings have completely set, which may ordinarily take sometime. To achieve a stable intonation in just a few minutes you can repeatedly pinch each string at midlength with your fingers, pull it decidedly sideways and tune it up again. Stop when the string does not pull out of tune anymore.

Because of its nature a Nylgut string stretches noticeably more than a regular gut string, which leads, under equal stress, to a somewhat thinner diameter.
Hence the necessity to use a thicker starting diameter: under working stress it will settle to a diameter similar to that of a regular string's and will eventually lead to the same working tension.

In practice the correct diameter of a Nylgut string is obtained by multiplying the gut string diameter by 1.04
Example: what is the right Nylgut string equivalent to a .97 mm gut?
Answer: .97 X 1.04= 100.8 (i.e. 100 NG)

Conversion from Nylon to Nylgut: employ the .95 coefficient
Example: what is the equivalent Nylgut string equivalent to a .425 Nylon string?
Answer: .425 X .95= .403 mm (i.e. 40 NG)

Conversion tables (between wound strings of different brands, Nylgut, PVF, Nylon, Gut strings)

Note: gauges are expressed in hundred of millimeters (i.e. 120 = 1.20 mm)

L= 120 cm

+ IVA - VAT - TVA