Flat or not-entirely roundwound piccolo bass strings?

[Nordic Groover]

A quick Google endeavour has been unfruitful, but does anyone know if anybody sells piccolo bass strings in anything other than roundwounds??

Would love a set of flats, or semi-rounds.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[SLaPiNFuNK]

Just need to buy singles and a plain steel .018 or .020 to complete the set.

The plain steel can be from any brand

 

[Nephilymbass]

A quick Google endeavour has been unfruitful, but does anyone know if anybody sells piccolo bass strings in anything other than roundwounds??

Would love a set of flats, or semi-rounds.

Cheers,
Chris

I don't have a piccolo but As you probably already know a standard 7 string tuning is basically just a 5 string bass combines with a piccolo bass. I tried a bunch of different strings. In my opinion mixing flats combined with the high unwound string you'll need for piccolo it just doesn't work. The high f or g string is much brighter than the flatround strings and its is a major string to string balance issue.