Colored Nylon Tapewound strings?

[PZapdos]

I'm getting a blank (no lines) Fretless soon, and I was wondering if anybody knew about not black nylon tapewound strings? i love the non-lined look, but will pretty much lose it if the strings are black

Just wondering if anybody knew of some!

thanks

 

[chadhargis]

I believe DR makes colored strings.

 

[jasper383]

The only colored (other than black ) strings I know of are rounds with a coating on them. DR is probably the most famous.

The only tapes I know of are black.

 

[PZapdos]

I know colored strings, this is for a fretless and i really love the tapewound sound.. i just dont like the idea of black strings on black fretboard.




for colored you have aurora, DR, etc. etc.

 

[lunarpollen]

Hmm it is a good question though. Why are nylon tapewounds black? Why not another color? Why not just the natural color of plain nylon?

 

[mongo2]

I vaguely remember red colored flats in the '60s but now, to paraphrase Henry Ford, you can have any color you want as long as you want black.

 

[T. Alan Smith]

Sadly, there is too little a market for colored tapewounds, obviously. If there were any kind of market at all, some mom n pop shop would be making them out of their garage.
Personally, I think black tapes look the sex over an ebony fingerboard.

 

[jasper383]

My guess is that tapes are less than 1% of the electric bass string market.

We should be happy that a handful of makers make them at all.

 

[jamespopali]

I had rainbow strings and people called me gay : ( .

 

[kelly mccartney]

i have a beatle bass with nylon bass strings,they sound great, but, i'm looking in to get some colored ones only if they are nylon...

 

[Gorn]

They don't exist.

 

[hsech]

You would be the only person at the gig to notice the color of your strings.

 

[AGH]

Apparently along with white nylon tapeshttp://Invalid Link Removed , La Bella is now offering copper white tapes Invalid Link Removed. I think I might be trying the copper tapes.

 

[Gorn]

The white and copper tapes are clear nylon tapewound strings and they're awesome, though not what the OP was asking about four years ago.

 

[JustForSport]

Yeah...
but they're a different color(?) than Black.
Since they're not coated, but wrapped, they're not sealed-
black obscures the tarnish.

 

[.BumeStik.]

La Bella makes WHITE Tapewounds, but they have a Much Brighter Sound to them than Black Tapes.

 

[Dominic D]

Not only is this thread from 2010, but the OP hasn't even been on TalkBass since 2011.