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05-02-2007, 04:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand. | | | 31 year old flat wounds?!
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Do any of you believe that the strings on this mint 76 P are the originals?
Cause i'm finding it hard. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instr...n-98399995.htm
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05-02-2007, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Orlando, FL | | | Flats, sure. Rounds, no.
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05-02-2007, 04:44 PM
| | | | I believe it. Nice looking bass! |
05-02-2007, 04:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | Why not? I just changed the strings on my StingRay for the first time since 1989. Also, I see no real reason why they'd lie about it; it wouldn't substantially increase value, or anything.
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05-02-2007, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand. | | She's a hot looking P that's for sure. Maybe my scholarship money can go to that instead of an education?...mmmmm.. 
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05-02-2007, 06:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | oh my is that thing GORGEOUS...root beer colour...excellent! |
05-04-2007, 09:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | I wouldn't doubt they're the original strings. Fender flats used to have those turquoise-color silk windings in the '70s (don't know if they still do). And it looks like that bass hasn't been played very much at all.
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05-04-2007, 09:13 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Wow, how often do you see that? That tears it. I'm putting my 7 year old LaBellas back on my P copy. I bought a new set of Fenders a month ago, but they just don't get it like that old set. I doubt they'll last 31 years after taking them off a few times, but they'll sound killer while they last.
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05-04-2007, 09:32 PM
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And not corrode 
NASA should make the space station out of flatwounds or something  |
05-05-2007, 01:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wynne, Arkansas | | I have a friend who owns a 1968, I think thats correct, P-bass., and it still has the original flatwounds on it. The strings and the bass look like someone took a claw hammer and beat the crap out of it. The bass sounds great. Go figure. 
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05-05-2007, 01:12 AM
| | | There was this one Guitarist...he had like...and old, old Les Paul Guitar....
it had 9 bullet holes, and the treble side on the front pickup was sunken all the way down.
...likewise, it sounded great.
Must be the bullets; I'm totally shooting my guitar to make it sound better now  |
05-05-2007, 02:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | Quote:
Originally Posted by meev991  They would really last that long?
And not corrode | Sure - I have some old LaBella and Burns flatwounds from like before 1970, still in their paper envelopes, and there's no visible corrosion. Sweat would be a factor, of course, but the '76 Precision above looks like it's mostly been sitting in its case.  
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05-05-2007, 06:44 AM
|  | Dr. Jim | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denton TX, Kailua HI, New York | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lmoh I wouldn't doubt they're the original strings. Fender flats used to have those turquoise-color silk windings in the '70s (don't know if they still do). And it looks like that bass hasn't been played very much at all. | I agree. A close look at the tuner string wrap does show "those turquoise-color silk windings" AND they are have faded quite a bit. These could very well be the original strings. They are certainly very old Fender Flatwounds, IMHO. 
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05-05-2007, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2001 Location: Orangevale, CA 95662 | | I bought my Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo new in 1970, and finally got around to changing the original strings last year (2006). It didn't really sound any different.  |
05-05-2007, 03:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Northeastern PA | | Yep, they're original. And to add my 2 cents, my '76 Natural/maple P also has the original flats and chrome on it too, and they're staying on. They sound great, and I've been playing it that way for years.  |
05-05-2007, 04:00 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | I have a set of TI flats on my P-Bass, and I plan on leaving them there forever. |
05-06-2007, 04:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Here's my '63 P-bass. When I replaced the neck in 1972 (broken truss rod) I put the flats on this bass and they've never been changed. I don't have any problem believing that there are a lot of basses out there with 20+ year old flats.
Flats just get better with age.  |
05-07-2007, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: London, England | | Quote:
Originally Posted by meev991 There was this one Guitarist...he had like...and old, old Les Paul Guitar....
it had 9 bullet holes, and the treble side on the front pickup was sunken all the way down.
...likewise, it sounded great.
Must be the bullets; I'm totally shooting my guitar to make it sound better now | You know that's the same thing that's in an anime called Beck? :P
Interesting... heheh
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05-07-2007, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by SirCanealot You know that's the same thing that's in an anime called Beck? :P
Interesting... heheh | ANOTHER BECK FAN
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