Advantage of tapered core?

Axtman · #1 09-23-2009, 01:41 AM

What are the advantages of a tapered core string? I hope I have my terminology correct. To me a tapered core is a string that gets narrower at the ball (bridge) end.

kalle74 · #2 09-23-2009, 05:36 AM

Increased flexibility at bridge, thus more and truer harmonics.

Bruce Lindfield · #3 09-23-2009, 05:43 AM

There are some types of bridges where only a tapered B string or E string will fit!

TheKingOfPain · #4 09-23-2009, 06:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

There are some types of bridges where only a tapered B string or E string will fit!

AKA Warwick bridges.

JTE · #5 09-23-2009, 11:34 AM

For years Bass Player Magazine always commented in reveiws that they liked tapered core strings better. But when they did their string "shoot out" and used a lot of different sets on the same two basses, recording the results, they found that the editors almost all found they liked non-tapered better. Sorta like having objective reviews of a highly subjective topic.

All I know is that when I switched from a tapred B on my Lakland Skyline 55-01 to a non-tapered, the B string came alive and sounded like it was part of the same bass as the other four. But the caveat is that I also switched from using Lakland's stainless steels (which are made by GHS, and probably are the same as GHS Super Steels), to DR stainless.

John