Need help with string ID

davpal · #1 10-10-2008, 07:16 PM

I have a set of strings that I can't identify through any descriptions I can find and was hoping someone here at TB might know what they are. They are steel flatwound - blue silk with a black stripe on the ball end and black silk on the tuning peg end. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Paul Warburton · #2 10-10-2008, 09:05 PM

Franswa?

bassist14 · #3 10-11-2008, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton

Franswa?

i don´t think these are franswas.
i think franswas are brown on top end and have two ballends

amphlett7 · #4 10-11-2008, 03:40 AM

Could be ernie ball flats

Steve Killingsworth · #5 10-11-2008, 05:40 AM

Quinn Violins has a string identification tool that works pretty well.

**Francois Blais** · #6 10-11-2008, 10:03 AM

Are you asking for a DB string?
The blue silk with black twist reminded me of Corelli 370Ms, but at the peg end, each string has a different color. (tone ID)
Yours are all black there?

davpal · #7 10-11-2008, 11:12 AM

Yes, these are DB strings. More details - Ball end- light blue with navy blue spiral and 10mm navy band at ends of spiral. Peg end-navyblue wrap with 10mm lightblue band to the steel. All 4 strings the same. These were sold to me as Eurosonic by a private seller.... I think I got burned.

**Francois Blais** · #8 10-11-2008, 03:29 PM

Eurosonics use a synthetic wrap over a steel core.
If you say they're full steel, they can't be Eurosonics...
And the silk is yellow with a different color stripe for each of the three gauges.