Quick question about Helicore strings & rosin… - The Session
2010年4月12日 · For gut strings (and metal ones if you don’t want to risk using alcohol near your fiddle) the best way of keeping strings clean is to keep either a wine bottle cork or a pencil eraser in your fiddle case and use it to rub the rosin off the strings regularly. Personally I do as Miss L does and carry individually sachetted alcohol wipes with me.
fiddle strings for irish/scottish trad - The Session
2008年2月4日 · Absolutely. I’ve used gut strings for many years, and they are rock solid once they stretch in. That fool was probably using a new set of gut strings (don’t know what he meant by ‘old gut’) that hadn’t been broken in yet. You have to let new gut strings stretch for up to a week before doing something like attending a workshop with them.
D’Addario Prelude Strings - The Session
2016年1月8日 · I searched the discussions and haven’t seen much about the Prelude violin strings, but I was wondering if anyone here has tried them and what your experience has been with them. I’m a relative beginner (about 8 months now) and started with Helicores, which I absolutely love, but seeing as I’m a beginner I thought I could get away with ...
Viola strings on a violin? - The Session
2003年2月18日 · Susie, are you tuning the viola-strung fiddle with viola tuning (CGDA?). I tried that once as an experiment (before I got into ITM) because my fiddle has a particularly deep tone on the G and D, so I used a viola C with the fiddle G, D and A (I was using Dominants at the time, and I think I’ve still got that viola C).
Best Strings for Fiddle - The Session
2004年4月8日 · thanks for all the suggestions. My fiddle is a late 19c hand made english violin with a lovely mellow tone and soft sound ideal for kithchen sessions. It is quite quiet and as i also play in pub sessions I have used helicore for volume but they can sound too harsh. I have settled for tone each time and accept that other fiddles and players are ...
Violin rosin for dominant strings? - The Session
2016年1月3日 · I have dominant strings on my violin, and use Hidersine Deluxe rosin on the bow (it has a rich deep fat wide sound on the lower strings, a wide broad rich bright sound on the middle strings, and a bright rich sound on the upper strings also.
gut strings for old violins - The Session
2004年10月13日 · Synthetic gut will be better than true gut. Natural gut strings are less stable and long lasting. Also less responsive. An advantage of these over steel strings with an old violin would be less stress on the neck. Newer, healthier instruments can handle steel fine, but older ones might have some neck drift with the higher tension.
“Opera” perlon violin strings? - The Session
2012年10月22日 · In my perennial quest for less expensive perlon core violin strings, I’ve come across “Opera” brand strings on (where else) Ebay.
GDAE or EADG? - The Session
2015年12月16日 · If you buy a set of strings for a violin (or indeed, for any other stringed instrument) the envelope containing the lightest-gauge string is always marked “1st” - with the remainder being marked in ascending order of thickness. To sum up, there are two entirely different conventions: one for tunings and the other for string purchases.
Prazision Strings on Fiddle (reviews anyone?) - The Session
2011年2月5日 · Here in the US in the ’70s that’s what all the violin shops carried for steel strings. A couple of years ago on the Fiddle (and Alternative Strings) Forum, Patricia (Tize) Clark mentioned trying the Light (“weich”) tension Prazisions… so I tried them. She’s an Irish Trad fiddler, and said that they worked well for Irish ornaments.