Double Bass String Guages

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If you have more to add or any corrections, I'd be happy to have them.

Jake de Villiers

Phil Maneri sent me some more data, including the controversial Stark D, and I've re-done the list as a .txt file which should transfer better to this forum. I hope people find this useful. Here goes......

Contents 1 Bass String Gauges 1.1 Thomastik Spirocore 1.2 Thomastik Dominant 1.3 Thomastik Superflexible 1.4 Thomastik Belcanto 1.5 Pirastro Obligato 1.6 Pirastro Flexocor 1.7 Pirastro Flat Chromstahl 1.8 Pirastro Original Flat-Chrome 1.9 Pirastro Jazzer 1.10 Pirastro Permanent 1.11 Pirastro Eudoxa 1.12 Pirastro Evah Pirazzi 1.13 Velvet Compas 360 1.14 Velvet Animas 1.15 Corelli 370 1.16 Eurosonic Ultra Light 1.17 Eurosonic Light Tension 1.18 La Bella Gut 1.19 Helicore Hybrids Medium

[edit] Bass String Gauges

G D A E

Diameters are in inches.

[edit] Thomastik Spirocore

Solo

.044 .061 .076 .103

Weich

.046 .063 .079 .107

Medium

.052 .070 .085 .111

Stark

.054 .065 .090 .117

[edit] Thomastik Dominant

.055 .065 .085 .113

[edit] Thomastik Superflexible

Orchestra

.052 .074 .079 .107

Solo .046 .064 .072 .096

[edit] Thomastik Belcanto

.050 .063 .080 .105

[edit] Pirastro Obligato

Solo

.058 .063 .080 .106

Orchestra

.060 .069 .088 .111

[edit] Pirastro Flexocor

'92

.047 .060 .077 .098

Original

.052 .064 .088 .109

Stark E ('92)

.105

[edit] Pirastro Flat Chromstahl

.048 .056 .074 .098

[edit] Pirastro Original Flat-Chrome

.052 .063 .087 .109

[edit] Pirastro Jazzer

.051 .069 .083 .111

[edit] Pirastro Permanent

.053 .064 .080 .106

[edit] Pirastro Eudoxa

.071 .079 .090 .108

[edit] Pirastro Evah Pirazzi

Orchestra

.059 .070 .089 .110

[edit] Velvet Compas 360

.065 .072 .086 .109

[edit] Velvet Animas

.078 .081 .095 .110

[edit] Corelli 370

Forte

.043 .055 .067 .089

Extra Forte

.044 .054 .071 .096

[edit] Eurosonic Ultra Light

.046 .060 .077 .104

[edit] Eurosonic Light Tension

.074 .098 .118 .149

[edit] La Bella Gut

.086 .107 .114 .135

[edit] Helicore Hybrids Medium

.053 .059 .082 .115