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February 27, 2010 at 5:32 pm #71993

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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Now, for a list of string manufacturers:

Gut: Bow, Pirastro, unnamed French company (Classic), Elysian

Nylon: Pirastro, D’Addario (Artist, Vanderbilt, International Music)

Wire: Bow, Pirastro

please help complete this list.

February 27, 2010 at 5:55 pm #71994

Tacye
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Salopian manufacture wires and sell gut and nylon.

Bow Brand sell nylon too, and I presume make it.

Elysian is I believe the name Morley’s use to rebrand things.

March 1, 2010 at 5:55 pm #71995

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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That’s the first I’ve heard of Salopian. Where are they based?

March 1, 2010 at 10:49 pm #71996

rod-anderson
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They are a small UK company at Oakfields
Farm, Bourne Road, Defford, Worcester, WR8 9BT.

March 2, 2010 at 12:54 pm #71997

Lorenzo Montenz
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Galli Strings based in Napoli (Italy)

wire and nylon.

http://www.gallistrings.com/

March 5, 2010 at 4:00 pm #71998

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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I didn’t know there was an Italian company. I only saw wire strings on their site. I wonder if they manufacture or only distribute. Given that they primarily do guitar strings, I might think that they are distributing D’Addario strings. Do you happen to know any details about them?

March 5, 2010 at 10:22 pm #71999

Dwyn .
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Aquila

March 7, 2010 at 9:41 pm #72000

bernhard-schmidt
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The German company

March 8, 2010 at 12:50 am #72001

Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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I don’t know of any string that is wire over gut for standard harps. Pedal harp wire strings are wire over silk over wire.

March 8, 2010 at 12:59 pm #72002

Elizabeth Whitman Seabrooks
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I use nylgut and thought there was a slight difference in the initial diameter when converting to/from gut since nylgut

March 8, 2010 at 7:03 pm #72003

Dwyn .
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It starts out the same density.

March 8, 2010 at 7:18 pm #72004

Dwyn .
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*Modern* pedal harp wire strings have a wire core.

March 8, 2010 at 8:16 pm #72005

Tacye
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The ‘silk’ in the wire strings I have tested by holding to a match (I think they were Bow and Salopian) was something artificial- probably polyfilament nylon.

March 8, 2010 at 8:29 pm #72006

bernhard-schmidt
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Not much harpist know that Nylon can take about 5 % of humidity…so as Aquila says…it might be 0,5 % and this amount isn’t very important anymore.

The

April 8, 2010 at 11:44 pm #72007

jessica-wolff
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I live in steamy Florida and have been considering Aquila Nygut for a classical guitar, a nylon-strung minstrel banjo (fretless and tuned a fourth lower than the modern banjo) and–maybe!–a harp.

What I hear from banjo-playing friends: the Nylguts take their own sweet time about stretching out, but once they have done so, the majority like them very much. (A few prefer nylon classical guitar strings.)

I am a little reluctant to invest in a whole set of Nylguts for a 33-string harp, but if they really resist humidity and have a better tone than nylon–!
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