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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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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 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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