Price

[ThePaste]

How much will different brands of EUB strings cost? I mean, do they go from $50-$300 or something like that? I am pretty sure they are more expensive than BG strings

[rllefebv]

Hope you don't mind me tacking onto your question a bit here Paste...

Any of you EUB players, what strings do you recommend as 'Most Bang for the Buck'??

-robert

[AlexFeldman]

I don't play EUB, but I imagine you can't go wrong with Thomastik-Infeld Spirocores (weich). They run about $120 for a set of four.

[rablack]

go to www.lemurmusic.com and www.quinnviolins.com I'm not an EUB player but I understand that they use standard DB strings which are, as you have surmised, much more expensive than BG strings. The type of string you get depends on what you want to do with it - pizz, arco or both. Check the archives here for lots of string discussions.

[rllefebv]

Thanks a bunch Alex and rablack. That's a huge help!

-robert

[ThePaste]

Thanks fellows, and another thing, can a piezo equipped EU handle any string material?

[rablack]

Piezos sense physical vibrations so string material shouldn't have a direct effect (unlike a magnetic pickup which senses the movement of a metallic string through a magnetic field and therefore couldn't get a signal from gut strings and might have trouble with synthetic core strings).