Sonore strings
 

Apparently, these are super-high end, ultra expensive German strings made in small quantities. Has anybody every encountered them, 'in real life'? All I have found online is an email address to the maker, geroldgenssler@gmx.de.

hi joel,
there is a thread in the other forum (sorry ken) about mr gensslers products
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=382000

and if you can read german many info in a german forum
http://www.geba-online.de/forum.php4

i never played these strings, but the guys who did are 100% convinced of their quality

Thanks Anselm, I don't know why I didn't see that thread. Perhaps it's because my focused has moved here. :rolleyes:

They do seem like a costly but nice alternative to all else. I just made a last minute application to that Bass Kaleidoscope course in Germany at the end of March; if there is still room for more participants, I might run into those strings, as he is said to show up there and showcase his stuff.

hi joel
thats interesting, maybe i will be there too.

That would be just great, Anselm. If there is room for me (I still haven't received any form of response), watch out for a guy with a red beard, too little hair for his age and a bad Swedish accent to my English.

ok, and you can watch out for somebody who looks like my avatar, but without a tailcoat.:)

(ever thought about using a pic of you as an avatar?)

A pic as an avatar, hm. Perhaps if I find myself having too much time on my hands someday. Which is likely to happen. Perhaps now; I am about to go to bed, it's just that I don't like going to bed so I keep looking for stuff to do!!

Try sleeping as something to do, then your problem will be solved.

Thanks Richard. Your wisdom is truly like a well where I have yet to reach the bottom.

i just talked to mr. genssler on the phone, he said he will be there with one bass and different strings to check out

And I just got confirmed that I can go. I don't think I'll be able to bring my own bass, though... seems like one has to go by train and bus. People always get mad at me when I bring too much luggage. Especially mothers of small children. They really hate me. They just can't understand that my bass is worth more than their kids. And I've done some counting on this! A child has to be over 3 years of age until so much money has been spent on it that it will technically speaking carry a greater value than my bass. Including the flight case, the kid'll have to be 3½. And at that age, they won't need a kid's carriage. This is why I have every right to claim the biggest space in the train as my own. :p
Anyways, Anselm, my friend, which route should I take? Flight to Berlin and then train towards wherever it is I should go?

well, joel, my friend, michaelstein is in the middle of nowhere, but i think if you fly to berlin, there must be a train next to it, and the remaing way by bus.
don´t they give you some roadmap at the office?

The Anfahrt part of the website is not very helpful. Their English translation is a bit contradictory. The problem is, that when I use Babelfish to translate the German version, it becomes just as contradictory! But I'll manage, I hope. I just thought that maybe you knew some secret trick.
I need to buy a bow down there. Some people will probably show up and try to sell us things, I mean apart from Herr Genssler, right?

i think so.




ok, you need a bow...i have some...

Bring 'em. :)

I need one from around €2,5k and up. The downside of buying stuff directly from people is that they tend to keep the best to themselves... what's your keeper? ;)

i have an about 60 years old german bow for sale. made in mittenwald and stamped "Albert Nürnberger"
but i doubt its the right bow for you, because i won´t sell it for 2,5k

But Nürnberger made good bows, didn't he? If it's cheaper but just as good as a billion dollar bow, I'd buy it anyway, you know. ;)

it´s 1500,-€

yes, he did. but my bow is a bow stamped "Albert Nürnberger", that means: anybody else exept Albert Nürnberger made it :(

Ah, one of those... like a Stradivarius bass.:eek:

I ran into an "H.R. Pfretzschner" on the Net before Christmas. It looked strange. Being the powerful and important man I am, I sent three bass players to check it out, one of which already owns three Pfretzschners. This one was strange, as it clearly wasn't what we usually associate with a Pfretzschner; it had a very low tip and was somewhere inbetween German and French, and had a rather clumsy brass peg. I HAVE heard that Pretzschner's early bass bows weren't what they later became - which isn't very surprising considering that he was something of a pioneer of the modern German bow - and it was indeed most similar to the earliest of the three bows they brought. They said it seemed to make a decent sound, but it needed work, and I wasn't very interested in spending my money on what wasn't necessarily a real H.R.P., so I let that one go. I'd still like to know whether it was real or not, though...