{"id":619,"date":"2011-08-23T21:13:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2011-08-24T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:18:59","slug":"13-days-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"13 days in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minoru Kimoto of Yamamoto Strings (Tokyo, Japan) has send me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jN1Q2t6U4ZY\">YouTube link of double bassist Yoshi Utumei<\/a>, playing arco on Presto Jazzicato Tungsten strings.<br \/>\nThe Presto Jazzicato string has a steel core with black nylon wrapping. We (the Presto staff and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lando-music.com\">I<\/a>) designed the Jazzicato strings primarily as a (Jazz-) pizzicato string. But Yoshi\u2019s performance shows that they are a fantastic orchestral arco string, too! Yoshi\u2019s tone has a nice, cello-like timbre, but doesn\u2019t lack the deep fundamental bass.<br \/>\nIn comparison, the Jazzicatos\u2019 tension is already low, and putting them on a 1\/2 size bass lowers the tension even more (due to the shorter string length). I guess his bass is pretty easy to play.<\/p>\n<p>Instrument: Montelibro 1\/2 size<br \/>\nStrings : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presto-strings.com\">Presto Jazzicato Tungsten<\/a><br \/>\nBow: Pfitzner (half black, half white hair)<br \/>\nBassist: Yoshi Utumei, Piano: Acchan Kobe<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jN1Q2t6U4ZY]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minoru Kimoto of Yamamoto Strings (Tokyo, Japan) has send me a YouTube link of double bassist Yoshi Utumei, playing arco on Presto Jazzicato Tungsten strings. The Presto Jazzicato string has a steel core with black nylon wrapping. We (the Presto staff and I) designed the Jazzicato strings primarily as a (Jazz-) pizzicato string. But Yoshi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublebassguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}