Author: Loree BF51
Date: 2012-12-01 19:35
This may be old data, but when I was studying with Ray Still in the late 50's and through the 60's (19, not 18!), he used 58-60 in the center and 40 at the edges and he especially wanted a very smooth transition, without the spine that was so prevalent at that time. He used a Bhosys gouger and a Starett dial mic that we took a little bit out of the spring, so it wouldn't indent the cane like a stock one. He used cane from Moennig in Philadelphia and then later, Delacroix, if I remember correctly. Then, in later years, he probably changed the cane source, but I don't know about the rest. At that time he was using a Loree AK and AU and then later, a newer Loree, that he used to refer to, as his "Strad". At the last concert I heard him do, twenty years later or so, he was playing a Buffet. I don't know if he ever played Marigaux,s.
Lately, I seem to notice that in the general marketplace, there has been a shift to thicker sides, but I don't know if that is absolutely correct. Regards.
R. Still former student
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