Squeaky Strings

[typsygypsy]

argh.

My fiddle strings are squeaking. I'm using Thomastik Dominants and they're not too compatible with my fiddle from the squeaks I'm getting (it's not just me- other players get it on my fiddle). Any recommendations for "squeakless strings"? I don't have a lot of time for experimentation.

TIA

Comments

[fiddle_dragon]

I use d'Addario Helicores for fiddle stuff, and something else that I can't remember the name of for orchestra stuff (though it's *not* Dominants).

[typsygypsy]

A few people have recommended helicores to me. Just thought I'd throw my problem on here and see what would come back. Thanks for the suggestion.

[fiddle_dragon]

np :)

[flamingo_moo]

are you sure it's not your bow clashing with the strings, and not the fiddle? that's what my problem is currently, I just don't have enough money yet for a nicer one.

[typsygypsy]

I'm using a Coda bow that I love but I have a few good pernambucos- a total of five bows and they all squeak on these strings. It's mostly the e string- I've gotten wound e's- they help a bit. I've heard that it's an incompatibility between the strings and fiddle. I think I'm going to take mnfiddledragon's advice and try helicore- several people have suggested them to me. My band is going into the studio in two weeks so I need to get something now and get used to them.

thanks for your comment.

[chhwe]

Swedish Prim steel-chrome orchestra, if you please; beat any Thomastik, pardon my French

[anonymous]

Thomastik makes another kind of strings called "Vision" (with a slightly more expensive version - Vision Titanium). I like these much better than Dominants, and find them more suited to fiddling than classical music.

However the E string squeaks like a Banshee. I recommmend a different E string, such as Tonica.

[treecipitation]

Sorry - Didn't mean to be anonymous.