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Originally Posted by Calvin Marks
I agree that there is a special sound and feel of playing on real gut strings. I'm talking about plain gut BTW not wound gut like Eudoxa or Oliv. If you're playing jazz then I couldn't imagine playing on anything but gut but for orchestral playing plain gut just doesn't work.
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Really? If you played Jazz and had to push a Band or Big Band or played solos you would see soon why Ray Brown, Milt Hinton, Sam Jones and just about every player I have known CHANGED to Steels..
Audibly, the Guts are too slow and they make you play harder to hear yourself. I see no need at all to play guts at all unless you are playing period music. Even then, any good old bass with bowing steels will sound just about as good in my opinion.
I have played Vivaldi, Bach, Hayden and Mozart concerts mainly with one Bass and two Cellos (Chamber-like) and they loved my sound. Bowing Steels all the way with an old English or Italian bass. No one mentioned after first hearing me that I needed Gut, NO one!
Is that Period enough or we need to go earlier?
Maybe you Gut seekers just need an Older bass, you think?