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Originally Posted by Richard Prowse
Gosh, that Bollbach certainly is a beautiful bass? How did you feel when he wound all those strings up? Have you seen this done before?
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I did the tuning up myself for him.
Last week after selling the Storioni I had to get another bass ready for him. The next best choice I thought was the Marconcini school bass for a few reasons. It's Italian, it has sloped shoulders, it is old, it was made on a guitar form and, it sounds great. The problem was that I only had two solo sets. One was Original flat chromes but with an extension E/C flexocor as they don't make an extension solo string for that set and the other is Spirocore solos. I thought the Spiros would be too harsh since he mentioned he uses the OFCs on his basses. So, I tuned up the Belcantos already on the Marconcini and, it seemed fine. Today, I just tuned up a few of the basses and it was fine. The Lion also has Bel's on it but the Hart has Passione Starks but, they tuned up just fine as well. So, he will play Belcantos Orchestra strings tuned up one whole step as the bass is currently set at.
By the way, Leon used Orchestra OFC's on his Landolfi (and maybe his Gagliano too) and just tunes them up a whole step when doing solos. He says it's no problem so, you have to go with experience and try what the man says!
