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Originally Posted by timobee4  My dear fellow bassist compadres, a few years back I discovered these Indian gut strings on ebay and I was attracted to the price immediately! After they arrived and I had strung my bass, I was loving the D & G strings next to the Spiro E & A. Over the next year or two I was a bit puzzled with why these the strings just wouldn't settle but I excepted them the way they were! At the end the G string was significantly thinner and had hair on it as it was slowly deteriorating. I replaced them with Garbos in the end. Recently purchased some gut strings also on ebay, they're called Kampffe's "Royal" with E & A Silver wound gut and D & G pure gut. These strings are twisted much more, and so beautifully. They are so incredibly smooth and also lacquered I think?!? Darker yellow in color and wait for this!!! they have settled in such a short time (of course a tiny twist is still needed and probably always will be) but in comparison with the bleached Indian ebay strings these strings are beautiful and they also BOW nicely! I imagine that Gamut strings are beautifully made like these, so when these ones die I will replace them with Gamut as I dont think that they make these Kampffe strings anymore! I am sure I'll get hammered by those in favor of Indian strings, I dont dispute it, as maybe they are great to slap, pull and torture. I play jazz and I will never waste a penny on those strings however cheap they are. There is 'made' and there is 'well made'! Timo |
Thanks for the info Timo.
I'll look at the "Kampffe" strings you mentioned.
UPDATE: The "Kampffe" (sp?) must have been a 1-time deal on eBay - I don't see anything by that name now.
I'm ok for now, but once I need to get new strings, I'll probably look at the Lenzners. I'd go with Clef guts, but I play a 3-stringer and have no need for the E, and it seems that the Clefs only come in sets of 4.
George
