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Post Subject: Without Getting Too DeepPosted by Paul S on: 9/4/2009
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I bought "The Spirit of Kousevitsky" (sp?), which I though had somewhat of a pop flavor; maybe more in terms of playing style than the scores, per se.
I have only listened to the CD in my truck, but it sounds like most of the music is written for and played on the "gut" (unwrapped) strings, and the instrument seems to be pretty well centered with respect to its native timbre. It really drives the open D, and nothing was done, recording-wise, to remedy the strong effect. I thought the wound strings sounded pretty good, with incredible power, when they were used. GK must have turned over a lot of rocks to come up with a bow tight enough to push this thing. I am just guessing from its sound that this bass would not be all that easy to play.
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