Anthony, People have varied tastes when it comes to strings. This variety is not only in the kind of strings, but the tensions as well.
Personally, I dislike wound strings, and do not use them for anything, as they are too bright sounding for me. I use Dan Larson's basses. I really like his new sterling silver gimped basses. They are true, and hold their pitch well. I have used gut for over 12 years now, and it is obviously my choice. I have only had one bad experience using gut in the summer in a performance, but I will not get into that now. I do not seem to have tuning trouble when I perform. In terms of tension, that is what I use, about 2.9 or 3 K of tension, per string. Please note, in using gut basses, on order for them to sound good, the octave string is critical... it must be at least as much tension, as the fundamental.. maybe even more. ed At 02:54 AM 9/22/2007 -0700, Anton Birula wrote: >Dear Ed, Anthony > >I indeed played all the time on kurschner wound >strings (synthetic) and felt they were the bes for me. >But now I do have the gut strung baroque lute which is >wonderful and Aquila Gut is very good. The basses I >have are Demi File and I still feel I would like to >try something else as well. >I remember once using kurschner Gut wound strings and >the were very close to the synthetic ones in sound. >That is true that kurschner is very close. >The problem is I would not like to mix gut and nylon >floss since it is hard to tune and they react to >temperature in totally different way. >Do you think 3 kilos tension is ok for the wound gut >basses? Or should it be less somehow? > >Thanks for writing, Anton > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! >FareChase. >http://farechase.yahoo.com/ > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.28/1021 - Release Date: >9/21/2007 2:02 PM Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (218) 728-1202 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
