New Nylgut® NNG synthetic strings

The New Nylgut® strings can roughly be considered the first ‘synthetic’ version of gut. They are distinguished by their coloring, which is similar to that of this material, and also possess the same specific weight, meaning that (theoretically at least) the gauges to be used are the same.

New Nylgut strings, however, elongate more under tension than gut strings and therefore lose a certain percentage of their diameter, which is greater than that of a corresponding gut string. It is therefore suggested that in practice the diameter in the table immediately below should be used: for example, having a gut string of 44 (or that which results from the calculations) use a New Nylgut string of gauge 46 instead.

Being made of a plastic material, New Nylgut is characterized by a great stability to climatic changes, certainly superior to that of gut and even Nylon for musical use. New Nylgut® strings therefore advantageously replace both Nylon and gut strings in plucked instruments and harps.

Field of application

The development of a new synthetic material that could imitate the acoustic characteristics of gut without possessing the typical defects such as high cost, low durability and instability to climate change has always been a key element of our research. New Nylgut® is the result of this research; the perfect synthesis between the mechanical and acoustic properties of Nylon and PVDF (so called ‘carbon’).