http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S0-MmJaq0

My late 19th c George Matthews Zither Banjo with Nylgut strings. Can 
still empty a pub if played in anger, with or without singing.

David

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S0-MmJaq0
> My late 19th c George Matthews Zither Banjo with Nylgut strings. Can 
> still empty a pub if played in anger, with or without singing.

I don't think I'd knowingly heard Nylgut before.  Tried it on any
other instruments?  (I'm wondering how it might work on the ud,
cumbus or cobza - the last two are normally steel-strung).

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Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S0-MmJaq0
>> My late 19th c George Matthews Zither Banjo with Nylgut strings. Can 
>> still empty a pub if played in anger, with or without singing.
> 
> I don't think I'd knowingly heard Nylgut before.  Tried it on any
> other instruments?  (I'm wondering how it might work on the ud,
> cumbus or cobza - the last two are normally steel-strung).
> 


I've got it on my timple and that sounds really great. Roger now uses it 
on his Gibson ukulele-banjo for the Formby songs at Kelso. I have a 
complete oud set but I have not got round to the mammoth task of 
restringing the Moroccan oud yet, they are waiting. It also works really 
well on all registers of ukulele (to the extent that many uke vendors 
now only fit Nylgut from new).

I think it would be very good on the cobza - just the right sort of tension.

David