Wound High G

[roastbeast]

Out of curiosity, is this a thing anybody has tried? And a wound high g + wound C?

 

[robinboyd]

What would you achieve with a wound high G? I can understand a wound C. Maybe even E, although I've never heard of such a thing. But why would you have a wound high G and not E?

 

[roastbeast]

What would you achieve with a wound high G? I can understand a wound C. Maybe even E, although I've never heard of such a thing. But why would you have a wound high G and not E?

Curious if it would help to emphasize the re-entrant tuning sound.

 

[robinboyd]

AFAIK, winding a string is to add mass without necessarily adding thickness, so it allows you to have lower pitches without sounding muddy. I don't think it is anything to do with adding emphasis. The high G string is already really thin, and if you wound it, just think how thin you would have to make it to account for all that extra mass. It would just make everything worse.

 

[merlin666]

I think there are some wound C strings but no reason to do this for higher ones.