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Screenshot of a blog post by user dpollak titled "Double Bass: Dog ate my upright bass gut D string:" "I recently came home and discovered that my dog had found my new, very expensive set of Evah Pirazzi "Slap" (gold label) upright bass strings, opened the package containing the D string, and ate nearly the entire string. On this string set, the G and D strings are made of gut. Apparently the dog interpreted a gut string as a very long chew treat. I took her to an emergency vet who induced vomiting (for the dog, not me). The dog seems to have suffered no lasting ill effects from this snack. The string itself will not recover. I will leave it to readers to draw their own lesson or moral from this story."
Owning a double-bass is an expensive investment. Student-grade instruments start in the four figures, maintenance is expensive (you can't just drop it off at your local guitar center) and strings are nightmarishly expensive once you need sets that are suitable for public performance.
Many working bassists use metal, synthetic or hybrid strings -- often a combination on one bass, depending -- but true gut strings are still made and preferred for the higher strings in some situations. And of course those are the most expensive.
A set of good strings can last a decade or more as long as your house-animal doesn't decide that your $500 string set is deliciously chewy.
source: https://www.talkbass.com/threads...
Many working bassists use metal, synthetic or hybrid strings -- often a combination on one bass, depending -- but true gut strings are still made and preferred for the higher strings in some situations. And of course those are the most expensive.
A set of good strings can last a decade or more as long as your house-animal doesn't decide that your $500 string set is deliciously chewy.
source: https://www.talkbass.com/threads...
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@thelonius I'm 100% certain that if I'd picked up double bass a couple decades ago I'd have had a blast. My hands are too wrecked now and I'm pretty sure I'd damage them further. It doesn't keep me from wishing, though.
And yeah, the challenge of course is that there are all kinds of double-bass sounds. If you only have a bass guitar, which kind of DB do you want to sound like and what compromises are you willing to make to get there? Keeping in mind you will never ever get the sound of a bowed instrument, give that up right now.
The other side of that coin is there *is* a good-enough to pass in most electric music situations -- it doesn't actually take a lot to be double-bass-ish enough to keep the audience happy. It's harder to get away with faking it in acoustic groups or small jazz ensembles.