Eudoxa solo gauge?

[Michael Lewis]

Check out that Carcasi on loan from the London Symphony Orchestra. Rinat also owns a Matteo Albani bass, which was a gift from his colleague and friend Alexander Stepanov. If you go to his website you can download all of his beautiful music.

[Thomas Erickson]

It's been a while and no word from Pirastro about the strings. I've asked a few other people and nobody seems to know if they exist; maybe I'll email Rinat and just ask him - I'm sure he loves getting questions like that...

Originally Posted by Michael Lewis

Check out that Carcassi on loan from the London Symphony Orchestra. Rinat also owns a Matteo Albani bass, which was a gift from his colleague and friend Alexander Stepanov. If you go to his website you can download all of his beautiful music.

I didn't see anything about his basses - did I miss something?

The one in this video is impressive, is it the Carcassi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NS8s...eature=related

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Thomas Erickson

It's been a while and no word from Pirastro about the strings. I've asked a few other people and nobody seems to know if they exist; maybe I'll email Rinat and just ask him - I'm sure he loves getting questions like that...




I didn't see anything about his basses - did I miss something?

The one in this video is impressive, is it the Carcassi?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NS8s...eature=related

The Bass looks a bit British or even early French like Pillement Pere especially with those FFs. It sounds like old French as well to my ear. I have only seen maybe 2 real Carcassi basses in person. One was small and one was cut, the model they all copy now, the cut shouldered model. Maybe this is a real un-cut Carcassi? I don't really know. His strings on that bass look like Belcantos!

[Thomas Erickson]

Maybe one of our monitors is on the fritz but that silk doesn't look orange to me - I was wondering what those might be, because to me they look like a dark wine red color. I was thinking they were flexocores. Hmmm.

[Ken Smith]

Originally Posted by Thomas Erickson

Maybe one of our monitors is on the fritz but that silk doesn't look orange to me - I was wondering what those might be, because to me they look like a dark wine red color. I was thinking they were flexocores. Hmmm.

Ok, but they look closer to Bel's to me, slightly dull orange than Flex 92s on my screen. Maybe ask him this along with the Eudoxa question.

On the Carcassi question, the bass in the first link vid playing Back with the Eudoxa's, THAT looks like it might be a Carsassi. The small one I saw years ago was more like that.

On the mention of the Albani Bass, look at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd vids. That would be the Albani between the 3 basses we have seen him with so far.

A few other things I noticed on the Master Class Vid was the black bow hair, bridge without adjusters and a straight steel adjustable end pin. The magic is all in the playing!

[Calvin Marks]

A1 = 1,54mm
E2 = 1,82mm
H3B = 2,22mm
Fis4 = 2,55mm

As quoted by Pirastro in an e-mail from one year ago.

[Michael Lewis]

Sorry to be off topic again.

The bass in the Bach videos is labeled, "Lorenzo Carcassi Fec. Dalla Madonna de Ricci in Firence, Anno 1765", but is thought to be made towards the end of the eighteenth century. Keep in mind Carcassi died in 1775. If you want to learn more about the instrument I found a great article.

http://www.krattenmacher.com/publica..._carcassi.html