.375 string by Octave 4 Plus.

[Doodaddy]

People were asking me the same thing about my low C# string over 10 years ago and then a few years later a few companies started offering low C# strings.

There will always be opponents to things outside of the standard. If there are no pushes away from what is "traditional" or "standard", there is zero possibility of innovation.
Period. The electric bass was a innovated push from the traditional instrument, the 5 string, the 6 string, contrabass, so on, so forth. Whether or not it's practical or "useful" (for whatever that term is worth), we need movement like this just for the sake of keeping stagnation in check.

That being said, how do you go about tuning your Contrabass accurately? When I tried F#, I had trouble with tuning and that's not quite close to where you are.

 

[FunkMetalBass]

There will always be opponents to things outside of the standard. If there are no pushes away from what is "traditional" or "standard", there is zero possibility of innovation.
Period. The electric bass was a innovated push from the traditional instrument, the 5 string, the 6 string, contrabass, so on, so forth. Whether or not it's practical or "useful" (for whatever that term is worth), we need movement like this just for the sake of keeping stagnation in check.

That being said, how do you go about tuning your Contrabass accurately? When I tried F#, I had trouble with tuning and that's not quite close to where you are.

For my low F#, the 12th fret harmonic is usually how I tune the string. I don't have a low C# string (yet), but I suspect I'll have to employ the same technique.

A ~5Hz F# could probably be tuned by just watching the string.

 

[keiththebassist]

A keyboard does not go lower than this. A Gregg clarinet with 32' of pvc tubing goes down to C @ 8 hz, which is also MIDI note 0.

And no, you have not "heard" it in music before. No human can hear the fundamental of 5 Hz. This F# is 2 octaves below the F# you are talking about. Jauqo's C#? More than an octave up.

A fun experiment, but these frequencies are not useful unless you want to attempt a conversation with an elephant.

Yeah, this^^^^^^^^^

 

[JAUQO III-X]

There will always be opponents to things outside of the standard. If there are no pushes away from what is "traditional" or "standard", there is zero possibility of innovation.
Period. The electric bass was a innovated push from the traditional instrument, the 5 string, the 6 string, contrabass, so on, so forth. Whether or not it's practical or "useful" (for whatever that term is worth), we need movement like this just for the sake of keeping stagnation in check.

I totally agree.

That being said, how do you go about tuning your Contrabass accurately? When I tried F#, I had trouble with tuning and that's not quite close to where you are.

I use a good tuner along with my ears.


Here are some tracks from my first solo CD The Low C# Theory, I'm using my fretless sub contra bass (C# F# B E).

 

[JAUQO III-X]

Some of you may find this informative.

 

[ixlramp]

^ The tone of that piano C0 string is clear and defined even over my laptop speakers.

Just wanted to be clear that first photo i posted was a rough test string, the final product has now been posted on the O4P FB page:

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[JamesGoodall]

To those wondering how people tune such low strings, I work with the 12th fret harmonic, going into a Peterson r490. Works well by my standards!