Quick help needed IDing a set of Flats

[uglycicles]

Howdy all,

I recently acquired a bass that is strung with flats. The guy I bought it from knew nothing about them, said they were on there when he picked it up 3 years ago. They sound really nice and I'd like to be able to get a 2nd set.

Only identifying mark I have on them is that the windings are a lime green color.

Any ideas? I've only played D'Addarios (blue windings) and TI Jazz Flats (red).

thanks!

[bup.schaefer]

Hi uglycicles,

the PYRAMID flatwounds (Pyramid Gold) has a green winding, which are often used together with the Hofner Violin Bass ("The Beatles Bass"), because Pyramid is/was also the producer of the "Hofner Strings". Both, Pyramid an Hofner, are German companies.

Here is a text from the PYRAMID homepage "
PYRAMID Gold Pure Nickel Flat Wound Bass Guitar Strings, the ultimate musical string. The Flat Wounds are the best of the best - without peer - no one else make this type of string anymore !!
The Flat Wounds produce the original bass sound of the late 50´s to middle 60´s (great for all type of music). With the Flat Wounds you can have lower action than possible with round wound strings & also you get no finger noise ! "


http://www.pyramid-saiten.de

I think this will help !

All the best !
Bruno Schaefer

[uglycicles]

Thanks for the help Bruno! I'll check them out