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Originally Posted by keykendrick If you don't need to use the stick, go with unwound gut on the D & G. I've played this on a school bass and it's cool. Terrible bass, but I can see the merits on a decent instrument. That's what I see in old pictures of Ray Brown and his contemporaries.
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I made the gut plunge a few months ago. I'm happy I did. I play mostly arco and was worried about being held back in my arco studies. Someone in this forum recommended that I get varnished gut strings -that turned out to be a good recommendation. I think the smoother finish minimizes the chance of the hair getting caught in the otherwise irregular surface of unvarnished gut strings. Still, it takes a while to get used to bowing them. All imperfections in technique are underscored. My teacher thinks it's actually helped me rather than hold me back.
A significant number of threads here are dedicated to finding the best hybrid string -the Holy Grail. For me gut has come the closest to that goal, but it came at the price of enduring a lot of squeaks, shrieks and wisps for 2+ months.
