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Double Bass GUTS ARE SO MUCH FUN!!!

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stefaniw80401 said:
What's an orchestra player, who also plays bluegrass and jazz, to do when he (i.e. me) has only one bass and wants to experience guts?
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Yes, I think Reiska has it right. Oliv, Eudoxa, or maybe all of either one.
Although ... as I proceed in my lessons, I think I'm not too far from being able to bow my Gamut/Lenzner combination passably. I still have to learn how to tame that *scratch* on initial attack with the bow.
 
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stefaniw80401 said:
What's an orchestra player, who also plays bluegrass and jazz, to do when he (i.e. me) has only one bass and wants to experience guts?
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Play them gut strings in orchestra like Simandl :cool:

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Reiska said:
As much as I love Carlos Chorda G and D, their tension, feel and arco tone just wouldn`t match with my Pistoy light A. I have a Lenzner G, mystery ( possibly Pyramid ) D, Pistoy light A and Evah slap E on now. Pizz feel is very balanced, Pistoy doesn`t feel out of place. Great deep bowed tone and even feel.

Lenzner G plays and sounds great. The mystery D is a good string, but I`m about to get a Pistoy light+ D when finances allow. Anyway, I just can`t let go the plain A. It`s a hard mistress for sure but nothing compares to the tone and feel.
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I have a pistoy light + D in the classifieds
 
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I've been playing the Gamut Lyon Heavy+ D&G for years now. I still love the big warm pizz sound I get out of them but I would like to try something with a "faster" feel to them (if that makes sense) and that would give me a better arco sound easier. Would the Gamut Pistoy be my best bet (and possibly in a lighter gauge)? I'm interested in any suggestions you might have.

EDIT: As a clarification, by faster feel I mean something that would "recover" quicker.
 
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juusokasperi said:
I've been playing the Gamut Lyon Heavy+ D&G for years now. I still love the big warm pizz sound I get out of them but I would like to try something with a "faster" feel to them (if that makes sense) and that would give me a better arco sound easier. Would the Gamut Pistoy be my best bet (and possibly in a lighter gauge)? I'm interested in any suggestions you might have.
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Moi! Pistoys are great strings, but they are extremely flexible and in my experience this makes them " slow " to play, they respond differently to your pizz touch than stiff feeling guts. IME they also need more room under them for this very reason. I recently switched my Carlos Chordas GD to softer feeling guts as Chordas made my Pistoy A out of place and the overall feel unbalanced.

edit: Pistoys bow really well.
 
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juusokasperi said:
I've been playing the Gamut Lyon Heavy+ D&G for years now. I still love the big warm pizz sound I get out of them but I would like to try something with a "faster" feel to them (if that makes sense) and that would give me a better arco sound easier. Would the Gamut Pistoy be my best bet (and possibly in a lighter gauge)? I'm interested in any suggestions you might have.

EDIT: As a clarification, by faster feel I mean something that would "recover" quicker.
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Moro!
Juuso, didn't you play Carlos Chordas...but those were on the bottom, right?
Give the Carlos D&G a go, they might be what you're looking for.

Or not.

Or spiros...
 
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ericsmith said:
Moro!
Juuso, didn't you play Carlos Chordas...but those were on the bottom, right?
Give the Carlos D&G a go, they might be what you're looking for.

Or not.

Or spiros...
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No morjens! Yeah, I've got Carlos Chordas on the bottom. Does anyone know what's the difference between the Carlos D&G and Gamut Lyons? I'll have to think about trying those, too. For some reason, David Gage seems to sell the Pistoys at a bit cheaper price than Gamut's own webstore so I'm intrigued to try those too.

EDIT: I got a set of the Perpetual steel strings from Pirastro a while ago but switched back to gut after a week or so.. They feel a bit Spiro-like IMO, loved playing them arco but having them on made me miss the gut pizz sound.
 
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Matt Birtchnell said:
I just put on a new Aquila Unsplit pure unvarnished gut G string. Anyone else used one?

I thought I couldn't do better than my Lyon G, but this is a real contender...it's thick but it bows nicely. I'm looking forward to trying it on a gig.

All the gory details about unsplit gut strings are here: Invalid Link Removed
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What gauge and length for a G?
 

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