bowing "ron carter" black labellas?

[lurk]

How do these things bow? Ron's pizz sound is great, to me, but when I've seen him live there's no bow anywhere, even for tuning.

[wineaux]

For me, these strings were next to impossible to bow. Even my instructor, who had 7710s on all three of basses, had trouble getting a consistent tone.

I loved the pizz sound, though.

[dfp]

i too found those black strings miserable for bowing. i attended a Ron Carter master class a few years ago and asked him about that, he said synthetic bow hair helps. i never had a chance to try that.

[Mike Arnopol]

they are unbowable