I was also at Chants de Vielles and heard Dominique Forge's opinion on unison G chantrelles. Even with my obsolete schoolboy French I could tell that he was adamently against the idea, saying that trying to keep the strings in unison was next-to-impossible.
So I tried octave stringing, and as Barbara said, the result was wonderful! It gave me a much fuller, richer sound, and stopped the tendency for screeching at the upper end. Also; when I was jamming the other night, I disengaged the high G and was able to burble happily in the background without annoying the heck out of everyone else :-) Choosing the low G string was hit-and-miss ( it was an experiment anyway). I dug around in my tool/junk box and ended up using the following combination: High G - 0.031in / 0.77mm gut Low G - 0.037in / 0.86mm gut Try it, you'll like it! David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
