I like to use a Tomastik Vision violin g. It is fairly short and will not work with some of the longer scale length instruments, but works on all of ours and most of the commonly made French instruments.
----Cali On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Bruno Fournier <[email protected]> wrote: > Use a a viola G wound string, crystal core.. works very well > > Bruno > > > 2014-04-25 14:06 GMT-04:00 Graham Whyte <[email protected]>: > > A Savarez medium viola g ? wound on stabilon string (ref 733M) is >> actually slightly thinner than a gut g' >> It works reasonably well but not superbly >> >> I use hand made NRI wound strings at my choice of weight (also thinner >> than gut g') >> They are close wound silver plated copper wound on gut (Colum 5, 68 thou) >> Not cheap but superb rich sound, play perfectly all the way to the top of >> octave 2 >> Having octave chanters is great, you get 3 different melody sounds >> >> Graham >> >> >> >> On 25/04/14 18:28, Norm Sohl wrote: >> >> I've always treasured this list in particular as a source of excellent >> technical advice - so here is a technical question. >> My instrument is currently tuned G/C with the two chanters tuned to the >> typical g’. Since one of the chanters broke, I’ve been thinking of >> replacing it with a string that would sound an octave below the g’ to get a >> richer sound. >> so far the viola string I purchased is too large to fit in the tailpiece, >> and I am reluctant to enlarge the hole without further discussion of the >> topic - so, what do you all think? Is this a reasonable modification, are >> there good strings I should be considering, are there better ways to get a >> lower sound (like a different tuning entirely)? >> Sent from Windows Mail >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hurdygurdy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> -- >> 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. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hurdygurdy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > 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. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hurdygurdy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
