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Thought you might like to see this! This bass is being built for me by the very brilliant Jerome Davies, and now it's at the beginning of the finish process |I thought you might like a look. I have to say it's the best built modern bass I've seen, and the scroll is the best I've seen on any bass.

As the title implies! My beautiful 19th Century German/Czech bass loves low tension strings, and feels (and sounds!) a tiny bit choked with solo strings. The lowest I've been able to find so far are Helicore Solo. What can anyone suggest? 100% arco, of course! Neil

Hi All, Having fallen in love with D'Addario Kaplan Lights for my orchestral playing, I've decided that as I need a set of solo strings, and I have no recent experience of such things, I should trust the God of Strings and go for a set of Kaplan Solo. If they sound like a clearer, more intense...

For the first time in over 30 years (since I did my ARCM recital) I find myself in need of a set of solo strings. I have a date to perform the Koussevitsky concerto with my orchestra. So - solo strings! At present I have Kaplan Light orchestral strings and the lower tension after Bel Cantos has...

Another silly question! I'm planning a performance of the Capuzzi concerto with a local school orchestra (reasonable school standard, not amazing, hence the need to stick to the simple Capuzzi). I'm going to play the solo part up an octave, but I need lots of time to work that up and memorise...

Hi All, I just bit the bullet and ordered a set of Kaplan lights for Meghan. I'm replacing Bel Cantos, which I like, but I have a feeling that the bass will like a little less tension, and finally giving in to all the folk around me who rave about Kaplans. It's a pricey experiment, as I have a C...

Hi All, I'm getting more and more pleasure from playing chamber music as I get older, and I have loads of repertoire for bass and piano, bass duets, trios etc and some for bass and violin, bass and cello etc. What I'm looking for is rep for larger chamber groups - quintets and up for mixed...