Colored Nylon Tapewound strings?

[PZapdos]

I'm getting a blank (no lines) Fretless soon, and I was wondering if anybody knew about not black nylon tapewound strings? i love the non-lined look, but will pretty much lose it if the strings are black :P

Just wondering if anybody knew of some!

thanks :P

[chadhargis]

I believe DR makes colored strings.

[jasper383]

The only colored (other than black ) strings I know of are rounds with a coating on them. DR is probably the most famous.

The only tapes I know of are black.

[PZapdos]

I know colored strings, this is for a fretless and i really love the tapewound sound.. i just dont like the idea of black strings on black fretboard.




for colored you have aurora, DR, etc. etc.

[lunarpollen]

Hmm it is a good question though. Why are nylon tapewounds black? Why not another color? Why not just the natural color of plain nylon?

[mongo2]

I vaguely remember red colored flats in the '60s but now, to paraphrase Henry Ford, you can have any color you want as long as you want black.

[T. Alan Smith]

Sadly, there is too little a market for colored tapewounds, obviously. If there were any kind of market at all, some mom n pop shop would be making them out of their garage.
Personally, I think black tapes look the sex over an ebony fingerboard.

[jasper383]

My guess is that tapes are less than 1% of the electric bass string market.

We should be happy that a handful of makers make them at all.

[jamespopali]

I had rainbow strings and people called me gay : ( .