u/Illustrious-Load6540

Hey violinists! Does anyone here change out their strings when they accompany for vocalists? I've heard of people changing out their regular violin strings for thicker viola strings when accompanying male vocalists with low pitches. I'm only used to swapping the tuning of the strings themselves (eg. from S-P-S-P to P-S-P-S), but then I have to stretch my fingers to play extensively in the lower strings can be difficult. Otherwise, I have to tune them normally, but then the sound is either unpleasantly high-pitched for female vocalists or unpleasantly low-pitched for males.

Just curious what the workaround is for this?