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Hi there. This is for all you guys and girls living and working with music in London. I´m a music teacher at a norwegian so called Folkhighschool. It´s a kind of school that differs from the regular school system, giving young students the opportunity to work freely and explore music and not be...

Of course you dial in with the parametric. Easy to do with my Eden WT400. Then the source is the most important. I have tried RS on both my former bass and now my Grunert. I also have a female colleage that never got any decent sound from the RS. Maybe we have a strange taste for double bass...

I think that the RS is both a pretty nice pickup, and a very difficult pickup to use. It is nice, because it somehow sounds neutral and pretty much like an double bass directly into the board: in studio. But in live use you kind of need a little ekstra to the sound to cut through in the band...

A few weeks since I did the reassembly. I understand the parts inside were there for a reason. But after the reassembly I must say that the sound result was an improvement. As I presumed the sound would be something between the RS and the Underwood. In fact it came out to be one of the better...

Haa-haa! (Nelson, Simpsons) Just to be a little serious... The BC E really sucks!!!! I´ve been emailing with Bernard Rieger, one of the top guys in Thomastik I guess. He spoke about Thomastik having produced a new BC E-string prototype. That was like a year ago. I wonder why they are...

Hehe, maybe Mozart was the wrong reference :). And agressive the wrong word. What I meant was an A and E (specially E) that is both fast and fat in sound for "rapido" music. I agree with you that the BC´s blend extremely well with the rest of the section. For me it is also ipmortant to have...

I´ve been using them too for arco playing in an orchestra, and I still think it would be better with a mix. Specially the E is kind of dull. Sounds beautiful, but dull. If you´re playing more agressive and rapid stuff like Mozart etc, then I think Spiro E and A will give more bass "in your...

Trough the piezo and amp, its kind of ok. Acousticly: where did the A and E go? Playing with a trio or something makes the A and E disappear.

I did something terrible today:D Got kind of tired of my Revolution Solo 2, because it never completely satisfied my taste. And then I thought it would be fun to check out the construction. The wood was sanded down to almost nothing anyway, because of the serious small gap under the wings of my...

I have been reading some posts about Spiro mittels an weichs. I want to make a mix set of Bel Canto G and D, with Spirocore A and E. It´s come down t either the weichs or perhaps the solos. Which of these are the best match tensionwise, and also soundwise? BC´s are quite dark, so I´m thinking...

I read the Mittel/weich thread, but am more curious about the difference between the weichs and the solos. Mittels sound too much like a fretless bass

I tried to get some answers from the Bel Canto thread, but no response yet. I need a better E-string for my Bel Canto set, because the Bel Canto E is only useable for bowing. The BC E-string suchs for pizz. People talk about the Spiro mittel and weich. I have played the mittel set, but think...

Wouldn´t the Weich be the most natural choice, in terms of tension? I remember playing the Mittels on my former bass, and all strings were very fretless-like... when I tried the BC´s they were sort of "spiros without the fretless-sustain" and sweeter under the bow. However the E-string suchs...

I´m not sure if there is a Morodian dealer in Norway. Heard of Vader bags? They seem nice, and pretty solid.

I recently had an accident with my bass during transport, and the result is a nice big crack in the front, to the right of the bridge and endpin. The repair will be expensive, but the bass will probably be better than before, since it was somehow bad set up. I think there was quite a big tension...

Ha! How about a bamboo tailpiece? That would be pretty nice, and ridicilously light. But I guess it would be too fragile. Maybe some really big bamboo, thick enough and to get the right curvature av the tailpiece and all. Just a funny suggestion :)

I recently had an accident with my bass during transport, and the result is a nice big crack in the front, to the right of the bridge and endpin. The repair will be expensive, but the bass will probably be better than before, since it was somehow bad set up. I think there was quite a big tension...

I have been thinking the same thing. But tuning the afterlenght to octave and a fourth has made some improvement on the sound. The afterlength does also do something with the stiffness of the strings

Anyone got any experience with the Kolstein adjustable bridge with exotic wood adjusters? Is it worth to pay twice the price of a regular adjustable bridge with aluminum/brass adjusters?

Aha...this might be the source for the overtones. I did earlier elevate the A-string a bit, building a new elevated notch with a tiny piece of wood and some waterproof wood-glue. I earlier found the A-string to be somehow lower on the fingerboard than the other strings in comparison. I...

Hi Guys. just a little suggestion here, regarding soundposts. I guess my topic has been called up on the forum earlier, but what the heck.... What would a graphite soundpost sound like? It is a stable material, and lightweight. Might be an effective conductor of vibrations from the top to...

I have a problem, that seem to have appeared pretty recently. I changed to a new set of Bel Cantos, and the A string has got pretty exaggerated overtones on the notes B flat, B and C. The B is the worst. the overtone (or harmonic some will say) is a major sixth to the played tone. I this a wolf...

I´ve also thought about making a solid one piece endpin, to stick directly into the bass. This is possible because my Grunert has in addition to the endpin a single wooden knob for anchoring the tailgut. Someone in the forum wrote that he used a curtain rod as an endpin, probably spruce. I´m...

I don´t think the string would be too long, since I am using the last upper tuner, nr 4 from the nut. I believe there would be a slightly different tension on this string, since its full thickness runs all the way to the tuner pin. Are you shure about the thickness? Doesn´t the lower C/B...

I am quite a Bel Canto fan, but I am not satisfied with the somewhat weak E. I recently put on a new set, and strung them in another fashion to the tuners; E string farthest from the nut. Perhaps this will make the E-string sound better, because of the tension is somehow changed. Then I got to...

I recon the rosewood would let the bass vibrate more freely..... since it is less dense than ebony. Any thoughts?

I might go for the Rosewood, because it matches the other rosewooden details on my bass, such as tunerknobs and the ekstra "tailgut anchor" Buying both ebony and rosewood is out of the question regaring to relatively high price on the units

I am planning on putting an all wood endpin on my Grunert. Considering the Onyx from Lemur. There is a rosewood version and an ebony version. I also consider replacing my ebony tailpiece with a rosewood compensated tailpiece. Anyone got any ideas regarding the difference in these woods? How...

I have Bel Cantos on my Grunert, and find these to be the best hybrid strings for decent jazz and classical works. The downside with Bel Cantos is the somewhat weak E-string. But then I start thinking about the KC Strings wooden endpin leg. There has been written some stuff about this piece...

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I need to replace my bolt/screw for the endpin collar. It´s a 1/4-20 thread bolt. Here in Norway we got the metric standard threads, measured in millimeters, not inches. So a wing bolt like this is kind of hard to get hold of. I would also like this wing bolt to be ok to look at, not just a...

Sounds like a simple and clean solution. Curtain rods are made of average spruce, I guess. Same wood as the soundpost.

I might consider something like a sledge shaft or similar shafts. They are made of hickory too. And they are also preshaped :)

The endpin doesn´t have to stay put when I´ve got this dedicated plug for the tailgut. I guess the end block of the bass is glued properly to the body, so there won´t be any breakage problems here. Just need a big, fat wooden endpin! But I might also make myself a dedicated "transport...

I think the non-adjustability is not an issue, because the endpin is pulled out and fastened to one particular length anyway. So I only need to pull off the endpin during transportation. I see your bass has got a permanent mounted endpin. In my opinion that´s trouble, because you get 1 1/2 feet...

Since I have a bass with the tailgut mounted around a knob in front of the endpin, I thought I just might try a complete solid wooden endpin. That means I mount a piece of wood in a lathe and make myself an endpin that fits right into the end block of the bass. I think this would improve the...

This evening I did put on a nylon tailgut that came with the ebony tailpiece i bought for Bob Gollihur some years ago. It was lying in the drawer because it didn´t work out with the first bass I owned. Now I got the Grunert, and the nylon tailgut seem to work out better. The low frequencie...

Tuning my afterlength from fifths to fourths made the bass a little brighter, and the strings a littlebit stiffer and less flimsy. I removed the shims from under the bridge. They didn´t work for their purpous. I really should have get hold of a lighter tailpiece (maple). The ebony tailpiece´s...

I have now made some adjustments to the afterlength. I also put some shims under the bridge, to raise it a bit. Since it is late at night in Norway, I haven´t had the time for a good testride. The bass sound i bit different, the strings got a little stiffer also, which perhaps was a good...

I guess its a matter of harmonics.......fifths make different harmonics than fourths. So if the fourths make a nicer harmonics palette......:hmm: