I am here, to humbly submit myself to the wisdom of the UU Oracle(s)...
I am on a quest for a SQUEAKLESS POLISHED wound C string, to go on a re-entrant C-tuned tenor....
I already know about the Fremont SQUEAKLESS POLISHED wound low-G string, and have used it before (as a low-G string), and this string is 0.030" - I am not sure you can tune it up a fourth to C4 and use it as your 3 string as a wound string.
I am afraid it will snap, and hesitate to test it without knowing someone else has succeeded before me.
Is there A SIMILAR magical string to use like the Fremont, but for the C string?
Do I have to spend $7 for single string of the Thomastk-Infeld CF27 (0.027") and use that?
If not, then what is the standard thinking for a wound C string? What do you use?
Over a dozen different sets of different fluorocarbon strings, I am finding that their unwound fluoro C string seems to be floppy and sound kind of dead to me, regardless of the string set, save for Fremont Blacklines Hard Tension set for Tenor scale.
I have many MANY sets of Worths (both Brown and Clear) as well as Martins) and have mixed and matched different strings for the elusive C string, and it seems the only way now is the Aquila REDS C string, or a wound string that is in the range of 0.030"-0.038 (like one of the D'Adarrio singles, but they are not polished for squeak-less operation)...
so...
Please help me, please educate me.
Your supplicant,
Booli :bowdown:
I am on a quest for a SQUEAKLESS POLISHED wound C string, to go on a re-entrant C-tuned tenor....
I already know about the Fremont SQUEAKLESS POLISHED wound low-G string, and have used it before (as a low-G string), and this string is 0.030" - I am not sure you can tune it up a fourth to C4 and use it as your 3 string as a wound string.
I am afraid it will snap, and hesitate to test it without knowing someone else has succeeded before me.
Is there A SIMILAR magical string to use like the Fremont, but for the C string?
Do I have to spend $7 for single string of the Thomastk-Infeld CF27 (0.027") and use that?
If not, then what is the standard thinking for a wound C string? What do you use?
Over a dozen different sets of different fluorocarbon strings, I am finding that their unwound fluoro C string seems to be floppy and sound kind of dead to me, regardless of the string set, save for Fremont Blacklines Hard Tension set for Tenor scale.
I have many MANY sets of Worths (both Brown and Clear) as well as Martins) and have mixed and matched different strings for the elusive C string, and it seems the only way now is the Aquila REDS C string, or a wound string that is in the range of 0.030"-0.038 (like one of the D'Adarrio singles, but they are not polished for squeak-less operation)...
so...
Please help me, please educate me.
Your supplicant,
Booli :bowdown: