Academie Gut Viennese Bass Strings
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Academie Gut Viennese Bass Strings

Viennese Bass Gut String Set

AcademieSKU: AS40_V0
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Gauge: Light
Stopping End Washers: No Washers
String Varnish: No Varnish
Price:
$973.11 USD

Description

Viennese Bass Gut String Set Gauges
Viennese Bass a-1 Lyon
Light 1.88mm
Medium 1.96mm
Heavy 2.06mm
Viennese Bass f#-2 Lyon
Light 2.22mm
Medium 2.30mm
Heavy 2.38mm
Viennese Bass d-3 Pistoy
Light 2.94mm
Medium 2.98mm
Heavy 3.02mm
Viennese Bass A-4 Gut/Silverplate
Light 2.70mm
Medium 2.78mm
Heavy 2.88mm
Viennese Bass E-5 Gut/Silverplate
Light 3.16mm
Medium 3.26mm
Heavy 3.34mm

 

    • Viennese Bass a-1: Lyon Gut / Single-Length, 78"/198cm

    • Viennese Bass f#-2: Lyon Gut / Single-Length, 78"/198cm

    • Viennese Bass d-3: Pistoy Gut / Single-Length, 78"/198cm

    • Viennese Bass A-4: Gut/Silverplate-Wound / Single-Length, 66.5"/169cm; Knot to Stocking, 54.5"/138cm; Stocking, 12"/30cm

    • Viennese Bass E-5: Gut/Silverplate-Wound / Single-Length, 66.5"/169cm; Knot to Stocking, 54.5"/138cm; Stocking, 12"/30cm

    • String Material: Beef Gut, Silverplate Wire

    • String Options: Stopping End Washer, Varnish

    • Tuning Designation: a=415

Plain gut strings come with unknotted ends; gut/metal-wound strings come with a stopping end washer. Bass strings are quite thick and sometimes stiff, and tying a knot can be complex and inelegant. The stopping end washer is a reliable solution to the problem of securing the string at the tailpiece. Instructions on how to tie a string knot are on the back of each package.

Plain gut strings are available with a natural or varnish finish. Natural strings are hand-rubbed with a light oil. Varnished strings have three coats of finish before being hand-polished with the oil.

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Tuning Considerations
Gamut Academie Gut Viennese Bass Strings are designed for Baroque instruments by those musicians playing historical performance practice at a=415, and are perfectly suitable for modern a=440 practice, but the result will be a little bit more tension at a=440.

Technical Considerations
The Lyon-style of gut string is a high twist, single spin construction that offers a tone that is full and warm with a powerful fundamental and complex, pleasing upper partials. The color tends towards opaque light to medium yellow.

Pistoy Gut strings are made of three strands of gut twisted in one direction, and then the three combined together by twisting in the other direction in rope fashion. The results is a very flexible string with a quick response and a full, round sound. The color ranges from clear white on thinner strings to opaque yellow on thicker strings.

Gut/Silverplate-Wound strings feature a gut core with silver-plated copper wire wound onto the gut in tandem with a thin silk layer between the core and the wire.

Gamut Music warranties Contrabass gut/metal-wound strings for a period of 6 months from the date of shipping.

All Gamut string set prices are based off of the individual string prices; there is no penalty for ordering strings à la carte.

Further Reading
Contrabass / Violone / Viennese Bass
Early Music / Historically Informed Performance
Historical String-Making
Care and Cleaning of Gut Strings
String Calculator

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Hand-made in the USA by Gamut Music, Inc., a leader in the revival of early music strings and instruments. Gut strings are not intended to be used with fine tuners or string adjusters, and Gamut Music recommends removing those devices before installing the gut string on the instrument.

All Gamut Academie strings (pure gut and gut/metal-wound) are made with beef gut (bovine serosa) unless they specifically say "sheep gut." All pure gut Tricolore violin and viola strings are made with sheep gut; Dependable Coated Violin Strings, gut/metal-wound Tricolore, and all Red Diamond strings are made with beef gut.

Gamut gut string gauges are approximate (≈) diameter. Meaning, that while a ≈0.60mm string is polished in the workshop to a diameter of 0.60mm, changes in ambient humidity, temperature, shipping, and storage conditions can cause the string to expand or contract slightly.

Gimped gut strings and gut/metal-wound equal tension strings are gauged with the equivalent-gauge (=) system. This means that the gauge listed, such as =1.50mm, indicates that the string is approximately equal in weight to a plain gut string of that diameter. Of course, because the wire is much heavier than gut, the string will be much thinner than a plain gut string.

More information about the care and cleaning of gut strings, Gamut Music string types, and string gauges and tensions can be found on our FAQ/Articles page. Not finding an answer to your question? Please contact us.