Being a fiddler as well as a gurdy player, I use my fiddle rosin,
but, what I use is Liebenzeller, which is rather sticky and heavy
(gooey, if rosin could be such, and it'll pile up real fast on your
bow and strings, but not alot will dust down to the belly of the
fiddle), has gold in it, and is kind of dear at $20 a cake(that was
several years ago), but it should last forever. It is very effective
for the gurdy, too. I'm in the same impossibly humid wilds of
Louisiana. Hot and cold, but always wet. Mine is the Gold 1. There
are several varieties of it, gauged numerically, with differing
amounts of the metal, and other metals are available too. I think
what I use is the stickiest. Powerful stuff, just a little bit is
sufficient.
Pat
On Feb 2, 2008, at 6:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking from the impossibly humid wilds of Louisiana, where within
forty minutes, a perfectly functional instrument becomes slick and
squeaky, I have to speak for liquid rosin. In those situations, all
I have had to do was touch the cotton with liquid rosin, and the h-
g went loud and sassy.
Alice
In a message dated 2/2/2008 4:55:27 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Liquid rosin is just a useless complication , use whatever
the fiddle player brought .
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