Depends in part on your particular instrument and playing style, but
most players would tell you to use a hard, crisp rosin made for a
violin. Cello rosins can be suitable for lowed-pitched instruments
like the Hungarian instruments, but I suspect that you'd find their
response a bit slow on a French-style instrument. I would personally
stay away from bass rosin since it is so soft.
But I believe the best advice is to experiment and find something that
works for you and your playing style. Remember that each player is
striving for an ideal sound, but our ideals may differ considerably,
and an instrument set up properly for me may not work well for you,
and vice versa. (Here I'm talking about the minute adjustments each
player makes: clearly there are badly set-up instruments and others
that are set up well. But within the category of ones that have been
set up well, there is still a lot of room for personal choice.)
-Arle
On Feb 2, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Minstrel Geoffrey wrote:
Been doing music for a long time, never have I heard the comment
"use whatever the fiddle player bought". Pop's brand for the
upright bass, Is somewhat taky, heck if you leave the cake on its
side, it reforms its self to a different shape. Would that be too
soft to use on the wheel? Aldo I'm waiting for the winter 2007
chnooks to be dine, I beleive those wheels are wood, so can the pips
rosin work, or should I go more for the viola/violin type, which is
mush harder and more brittle.?
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