There are strings available--VERY expensively--in which the wound strings has coated with a plastic-type coating. I'm kicking myself because I can't think of the name, which you would recognize instantly. It's the stuff that's used on outdoor clothing, which has micropores and won't let water through as a liquid but will let it through as a vapor. As I say, when someone comes up with the name I'll probably shoot myself for not remembering it.

Now the water-passing/resisting feature of this coating is not in question with strings, of course, but slides on the wound string don't whistle or whine at you. Seems to me that I've heard that the strings are supposed to wear longer too, which is what we're talking about.

Since only the wound strings are treated, there would be no point in buying whole sets of this expensive brand, whatever it is; just the wound strings.

Dave Oesterreich