Odd question about tapewounds

[Oneirogenic]

I'm guessing an ebow works fine on these strings but what about a regular bow? Is enough friction produced between the bow and nylon wrap to vibrate the string? I only ask because I use bow on my ABG sometimes and wanna try nylon tapewounds.

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Use some Rosin.

They do make nylon tapewound upright strings...

Keep in mind that Rosin is going to leave sticky ickies all over your bass...

 

[Oneirogenic]

I'm aware of sticky ickies probably gonna be ordering some tapewounds from you when I get some cash. Too broke for strings

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

I'm aware of sticky ickies probably gonna be ordering some tapewounds from you when I get some cash. Too broke for strings

Well, I'm feeling saucy... Drop me a PM

;-)

 

[Thurb]

Do you use a bow on just the lowest and highest string?

 

[Oneirogenic]

Depends on what I'm doing. Yes it's easiest to bow single notes on only the outer strings but since I often use open tunings I can run the bow across all the strings open or with harmonics. Chords can be bowed but it's not easy. In drop D tuning I can easily bow a melody on the G string while simultaneously bowing open D chord across the other three strings. I have a lot more I can tell you if your interested....this post has gone way too off topic.

 

[patplaysbass]

I once bowed a bass with rounds because the jazz chart called for a bowed intro but I don't play upright... the ironic part is that it was a violin bass. Go figure.