What strings do I have?

[Basso Profoundo]

Just picked up an EUB and the seller said it had spirocores on it. The ball end is red and the peg end is four different colors(a different color on each string).

Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Thanks

[Francois Blais]

These are not Spiros.
Spiros mediums have red silk at the four peg-ends too.
To determine the strings you have, note the four peg-end silk colours and try the string ID applet:

http://www.quinnviolins.com/stringidfier.htm

Also be careful to see if there's a different colour stripe over the ball-end silk.
For instance the Obligatos have a black spiral over red silk.
Pirastro's peg-end silk colour code is:

G - Brown
D - Red
A - Black
E - Green

HTH!

[gruffpuppy]

I can remember but the Spiro solos are either Red at the ball and yellow in the box or red at the ball and different colors in the box.

[Francois Blais]

Spiros all have the red silk at the ball-end.
Solos have yellow silk at the peg, and Weichs is purple.
I don't remember how the Stark gauge is coded though.
Chris?

[AMJBASS]

Stark has green thread at the peg. The strings he mentioned could be Pirastro Flexocor.

[Francois Blais]

Originally posted by Adrian Juras
Stark has green thread at the peg. The strings he mentioned could be Pirastro Flexocor.

Thanks.
Could be Flexocor, if we agree that ruby is red.

[nicklloyd]

If you have red balls, and multi-colored pegs, they might be Super-Sensitives.
Do your balls look like donuts, or spheres with two little flat sides?

[Basso Profoundo]

Sorry I haven't gotten back sooner, they look more like donuts. I will check the peg-end colors.

[Basso Profoundo]

This is a BSX Allegro and the stock strings are Super Sensitive Red Labels, that was my concern. The seller said they were Spiros and I want to go back to him and tell him they are not if that is the case.
It wouldn't be such an issue if strings weren't so pricey.

[Basso Profoundo]

The peg -end colors are as follows.
E- Yellow
A- Blue
D- Grey
G- Green

[Francois Blais]

The Quinn string ID applet confirms that they're Super sensitive Red Labels.
Anyway, Spiros peg-ends all have the same colour in a given set, so they're discarded right form the start.

[Basso Profoundo]

Thanks guys, the seller is sending me a new set of strings.

[Monte]

Originally posted by Basso Profoundo
Thanks guys, the seller is sending me a new set of strings.

He should. You can get a better sound than red labels with kite string.

Monte

[lowjoe1]

"Do your balls look like donuts, or spheres with two little flat sides?"

That's getting kind of personal, don't you think?

[Basso Profoundo]

Did it take you 9 years to think of that?

[TroyK]

Originally Posted by Basso Profoundo

Did it take you 9 years to think of that?

Comedic timing at its best!