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11-28-2012, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | String ID help (with pics)
These strings came on a secondhand Ergo I bought. I like their unamplified tone and want to get a set for my home-made practice bass. Any ideas? Along with the info in the pics, the length between the silks on the A string is around 50", which is 7" shorter than my current cheapo strings.
Thanks! - j |
11-28-2012, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Top thread colors
Fairly true. |
11-28-2012, 08:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Pretty confident that those are Thomastik Superflexibles. The peg end confuses me a bit, but I'm 95%.
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11-28-2012, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by TroyK  Pretty confident that those are Thomastik Superflexibles. The peg end confuses me a bit, but I'm 95%. |
Nope. Thomastik top silks are all the same color and the ball silks are too dark.
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11-28-2012, 11:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Well that just makes me sad. I do love this game so.
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11-29-2012, 06:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | The blue windings on the bottom are only about 3" long, and the balls are smaller than my Spiro Weichs (.25" deep vs around .375" deep)... |
11-29-2012, 08:13 AM
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Formerly known as Francois Blais... | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Québec, Canada | | | Possibly half size Corellis. (100cm set)
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11-29-2012, 08:34 AM
| | | | A friend of mine has a similar set of strings on his double bass. They look like spirocores except the silks are too short, the balls are different and the pegbox silks are all different colors. I thought at first they would be a 3885 set, but I'll have to ask what they are. |
11-29-2012, 11:07 AM
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The ball looks like Corelli's....can't say which set... |
11-29-2012, 12:08 PM
| | | | Ok, so my friend says that what he's got are super-sensative red-labels. I'm betting this is another string from the super-sensative line. |
11-29-2012, 02:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eub_player Possibly half size Corellis. (100cm set) | That's what I'm thinking, too, after seeing pictures of their balls and silk length.
(where else can I utter that phrase legitimately?)
Even the felt dampers look right.
Good price here ($86.53 to my door): http://fiddlershop.com/strings/bass/...00-cm-1-2.html
Not sure what the difference between the nickel and tungsten are, but I've only been able to find the 1/2 size with nickel.
I'm really surprised there isn't a better pictorial database available...
Thanks !- j |
11-29-2012, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jayscheuerle ...
I'm really surprised there isn't a better pictorial database available...
... | We could probably make one from all of the previous String ID threads. Wow, that would be a fun project, that I don't have time for, but maybe, I'll do it instead of sleeping.
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11-29-2012, 06:16 PM
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Formerly known as Francois Blais... | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Québec, Canada | | | The Corelli Nickels would be dark green I think, so they're probably Tungsten's half size then.
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11-29-2012, 09:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | Ouch. I think you're right. Better try to cancel that order! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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