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Gut strings are?
- Hideous
- The same as any other string
- Fabulous
Andrew
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I have no experience of gut strings apart from having heard some and having heard my teacher's opinion of them, so I've answered as though I were she.
Andrew
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🙂 @Gordon Shumway - at the moment, two votes, one for hideous and one for same as any other - just guessing at which is your teacher's opinion !!!
To return to the poll - sadly I have no experience at all of gut strings, so I'll duck out of responding! The only gut I've ever met in my fiddle journey was the tail-gut (actual gut, that disintegrated like a stick of dried spaghetti when I was removing the tailpiece) on my old Chinese Skylark fiddle !
I seriously recommend not copying my mistakes. D'oh - 
Please make your own, different mistakes, and help us all learn :-)
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Struggled with a nice set of Gamut pure gut (with a gut wound G) for a couple of days not too long ago.
I was truly able to make them sound 
hideous 
so that's what I voted.
Played by somewone who knows what they're doing, I imagine they can sound awesome!
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I would have to vote 'different', but since that's not an option I'll just put it here.
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Never tried them though I have toyed with the idea. As I understand it they can be beyond finicky. Back when they were the only game in town you didn't have a choice in the matter.
There's a reason they are much less used and I don't think it can all be credited to convenience.
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My old fiddle came with a gut G on it; it sounded very soggy, somewhat like it had a lapping of cotton (who remembers DCC wire?). I still have it tucked away as a keepsake, never to see tension again.
Peter
"It is vain to do with more that which can be done with less" - William of Ockham
"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in" - Frederick the Great
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I too voted hideous since the other two choices didn't apply.
Also, gut is one thing while a gut core is another.
They don't work on my instrument though I used Eudoxa for a long time back when my orchestra paid for them.
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but the one who needs the least."
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I asked because I know a violist who is keen on all things baroque, and he uses gut strings, but I heard him warming up the other day, and I couldn't hear a single note in tune (lol!). I mentioned it to my teacher and she squawked, "argh, no, gut is horrible!"
Andrew
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