Jeff Kissell Posted May 10, 2014 Posted May 10, 2014 Hey Gang, I'm looking for Innovation string ideas to pair with plain gut G & D. I've been using wound gut but I go through them pretty fast. These will need to have a similar tension to the wound gut (lower than steel but higher than weedwackers.) I tried golden slaps a couple of years ago and liked the tension but the bowability (at least for my skill level) was too diffucult. Slap and pizz were great. I also tried 140B orchestra and they bowed well but the tension was a little much for slap. (I'm coming to the conclusion that string diameter has more to do with slapability than tension for the E & A strings... ie bigger is better.) Opinions?? Rockabillys?? 140H Honey?? -Jeff Quote
daflewis Posted May 10, 2014 Posted May 10, 2014 Hi Jeff, I would say that your best bet would be the Rockabillys - they have a flat wound outer wrap which gives more contact area for the bow than the slaps, so there's more grip - not as good as the steel wraps as the nylon is naturally non stick, but some people do like them for bowing as they have a slightly breathy almost baroque sound... Cheers, Daf Quote
hubrad Posted May 10, 2014 Posted May 10, 2014 How about the Orchestral Solo set? Since they're designed to be tuned a tone up, tuning to EADG will drop the tension somewhat. Eminently bowable. Quote
daflewis Posted May 11, 2014 Posted May 11, 2014 Good point... I was concerned about steel wound strings matching the gut for slap and pizz sound, but actually I believe Paul King uses a couple of solos for slap... Quote
FLoydElgar Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 (edited) 140B is my favourite set of strings! Edited May 12, 2014 by FLoydElgar Quote
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