Hi Rob,
Thanks for that, and it was nice to see you again on Saturday. we spoke about it when we met, but I just wanted to comment on here about the weight of the G string... it seems to be one of those oddities of the double bass - that they're all so individual! they've been tried out on about 15-20 basses and I've had comments about the G feeling a little higher tension on 3 of them (and I should stress, as you did, that the difference is slight...)
Phil,
Thanks for the update, and if you do get a chance to make those recordings it would be really helpful - thanks!
Daf