Efrano Gut Strings for Double Bass Presentation AND smalltalk about gut strings 

"Boxing Hand Shoes" I love you so much Herve

What a great way to explain the beauty of gut strings Harve!

Nice video, I enjoy hearing another bass players opinion on get strings, again nicely done my friend.

This is very informative and interesting! Thank you for the video.

these sound really smooth, i love the sustain and depth too. thanks for taking the time to upload this!

Since i saw Eberhard Weber in the 80`i´m a fan of these basses....thnaks for this video

Thank YOU very much for your great work.❤ ❤❤❤❤

Yes, Paul Keller is great! I find my favourite (synthetic) gut aspect is the lower tension and feel even moreso than the sound (which I also dig). I agree though that some music calls for a bit more sustain than the guts can give. Thanks for posting!

Love your theory about gut strings sound, that's what I feel too! :)

Thank you very much for your great channel‼️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I love gut strings, but I play vintage style country music , blues, and Western swing so it’s THE sound you hear on the old records. Steel strings just cannot give me that punchy fundamental-heavy sound.

Killer solo!

Very interesting, thank you!

Super Video - Danke Hervé!

Brilliant! Thanks.

Plain guts all the way... Pirastro Chorda's are AMAZING too

thank you for your channel good sir. I am fairly new to the realm of upright bass and there is not a lot of resources to find out the sound of the many strings that an upright bass player can purchase. Thank you! keep up the good work!

dear Hervé, thank you for the review and for all the work you've done with the string matrix. I've been using it for years. I don't know if I saved more money than I spent after listening to your samples and deciding I want some of the strings from the matrix but it was definitely worth it )) I'm playing Efrano plain GDA and they are great. the A is solid and high twist construction and the sound is nice and warm. I prefer those over all the other cheap strings I've tried (lenzner kuerschner clef la bella etc) and many more expensive like pirastro dlugolecki and sonores (i still have the A and E of the basso set but although great strings i do not think they sound like gut at all) Generally Id say you don't need a very high action unless you really want to dig in, i found that both volume and sustain come when you press them strings down the right way. That is a great point you have made that its like playing another instrument and I think it is a good idea to stick with it for a while and get to know it as best you can. whatever the sound guy is doing, it is going to be your sound and gut strings sound and even if you think the trumpet would be more proper in the context and you're there playing saxophone instead that doesn't make you want to relearn and come back with the trumpet thats how i see it. I love your tone on the Efranos by the way, great thump! be well, sasha

Very interesting. Thank you very much! Love how you talk about gut strings. I'm still deciding what to do. As of tomorrow I'm going to build myself a electric upright bass and think that many of them sound like fretless bass guitars. To solve that 'problem' I'm thinking of buying gut(like) strings so to not have too much sustain and avoid the metal sound. Don't know if you've got any insight if this, but if so please let me know :-)

Thanks for this video and especially for your thoughts and comments on the topic! I'm playing gut strings for almost 10 years now. In contrast to your first experience with gut strings, for me it was the feeling when playing the strings that completely excited me. I love the thicker grip, lesser tension and softer feel. Since I play the strings, I've never had blisters on the fingers of my right hand, even after hour-long sessions. I don't think that gut strings, in particular sets with wound E and A strings, need a much higher action than steel strings (an adjustable bridge helps a lot finding the "sweet spot"). Currently, I'm playing the gut-a-like deluxe on one bass which - in contrast to the swing master - have a finer metal winding on E and A and also bow very well. On the other bass, I have plain gut D+G and Pirastro Jazzicato (the non-tungsten) on E+A which also mix well on this instrument, though I'll definitely try the Pirazzi Slap some time since I might favor a slightly brighter sound on E and A than the gut-a-like deluxe deliver.

It would be cool to hear you make a video with the Rotosound RS 4000 for comparison with these and Evah Pirazzi Slap

Thank you for all your hard work making these videos. Great stuff!! I ended up using Eudoxa for E and A and Olive for D and G. Have you tried that combination? Best regards, Lukas

My favorite gut strings are Pirastro Eudoxa which are Silver wound and are the most expensive strings in the world. Can't afford to play them any more so I use Pirastro Jazzers.

Dieses Gefühl von "da kommt ja gar nichts raus" hatte ich, als ich das erste Mal Swingmasters auf meinem Bass hatte (mit "echtem" Darm habe ich noch keine Erfahrung). Aber im Zusammenspiel mit in diesem Fall einer Big Band haben sich diese Saiten höllisch gut durchgesetzt; sogar ohne Amp waren sie passabel zu hören. Ich werde demnächst mal echte Darmsaiten ausprobieren und hoffe, dass die die Qualitäten der Gut-a-likes nochmal toppen werden.

Thanks fir the great video. I choose Zyex strings because I thought they had some of the sound of metal and gut. Have you a comment or have you also tried these? Best regards from Canada

Great work, thanks very much. Personally i prefer gut strings, even a plain gut low A, for arco playing. It's a more "three-dimensional" sound as compared to the meagre two dimensions of steel strings, or at least that's the way i feel it. I also use a very, very low string action. I'm lucky to have a luthier here who is incredibly good at planing the fingerboard just right for the lowest possible action without buzzing. Keep up the good work, thanks again!

Hello dear Hervé, thank you for the very informative video! I play an hybrid set (E and A Pirazzi weich, D Oliv and G Velvet Garbo). As my Garbo is slowly dying I'm looking for a replacement and I thought these Efrano could be a good fit, what would you say? Do they compre in terms of tension? Thank you again!

Hello Hervé! Good job. I subscribe to your channell now... One question: are the Efrano A and E flatwound or roundwound? Thanks, Tito.

Gday Hervé from Australia! Just wondering if the Efrano strings are hard on your hands. I used to play velvet garbos and unless I played everyday (bass is my second instrument) it was so hard on my right hand. The Efranos sound so good on your bass and on the other video you made beat all the other strings for tone hands down! Although the Evah Slaps come close! Thanks for your vids, cheers!

nice sound,,just Astring is more open than E ..all E strings are so ?

Nice sound! Do the A and E have a flat or round winding?

That is exactly like Arnold Schwarzenegger pronounces. It sounds excellent indeed.

My quest is to find the best plain gut substitute. I don't want a sound half way between gut and steel. Instead, I want the thump and short sustain of gut without actually using gut. So far I've used gut a like swingmasters but the e and a destroyed the fingerboard. I'm currently using superior bassworks dirty gut strings. These are kevlar core wrapped in nylon and work quite well for what I want though I will continue searching. Love your videos!

Hello, Where do u bought the efrano strings??

Another question...I see on the Efrano website that it's possible to buy schwach, mittel or stark strings. What kind of strings do you play here on the video? Thanks again.

where can I buy these??? Thanks for the vid.

Ciao do you have an address to ask about these strings? Thanks

I have an emanuel wilfer. I don't know what strings he put when he sent to me. Please advise. It sounds like gut

How long do you let these new strings settle to the tension?

how about give a review a set of slap happy weed wacker premier strings?