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For the last week I've been fantasizing about a bass guitar designed with strings that could handle the string tension of a double bass (60lbs per string instead of the usual 40lbs). How will this affect tone and will it be a meaningfull change?

I've always thought that the reason why it was at multiple of 5 is because Bass strings have 2 additional wires wounded around the core. If all 3 wires are of the same gauge, then the core wire is 1 the "base" gauge, the first winding multiples it to 3, and the second turns it into a multiple of...