To the best of my recollection, the most expensive string I've ever bought was a Sadowsky 5 string set of blue label flats. About $140 for a 5 string flat set. I think.
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What is the most expensive string you've ever bought?
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I tested several sets of strings on a six string.
The Optima Gold roundwounds were more than a hundred bucks.
TI Flats were on sale and around 85, I think.
Pyramid made me a special set for a Multiscale 6 string which was around 95.
The Optima Gold roundwounds were more than a hundred bucks.
TI Flats were on sale and around 85, I think.
Pyramid made me a special set for a Multiscale 6 string which was around 95.
Labella flats on all my 4's
The 6 took Chromes half rounds
I've used EB and Fender flats in the past. Back in the early '70s I had a set of tape rounds on a Vox cougar and I used Roto sounds for "swingbass" I don't recall them being called 66 just swingbass but I wasn't really paying attention. There were two reasons I was using Roto sounds back then, one was Entwistle used them, the other being that one of the employees at the music store I frequented would always slip in an extra pack, he did it so often that the store probably had a promotional going but he made it look like he was doing a solid. I certainly aporeciated the 2fer, those strings were $15 a set back in 72! Which figuring in the cost of money was a substantial outlay $15 in 1972 = $111.95 in 2024. They might have been $12... the fog of time and all that....
The 6 took Chromes half rounds
I've used EB and Fender flats in the past. Back in the early '70s I had a set of tape rounds on a Vox cougar and I used Roto sounds for "swingbass" I don't recall them being called 66 just swingbass but I wasn't really paying attention. There were two reasons I was using Roto sounds back then, one was Entwistle used them, the other being that one of the employees at the music store I frequented would always slip in an extra pack, he did it so often that the store probably had a promotional going but he made it look like he was doing a solid. I certainly aporeciated the 2fer, those strings were $15 a set back in 72! Which figuring in the cost of money was a substantial outlay $15 in 1972 = $111.95 in 2024. They might have been $12... the fog of time and all that....
Back in December 2018 I bought a set of TI Jazz Flats for $61.96. Loved that set of strings, and I would like to buy another set someday.
4-string sets:
i thought TI jazz rounds were pretty pricey, but dogal-hellborg stranded core sets are almost $80 USD, so they'd be the most expensive 4-string set i've purchased.
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i bought them just to try them out after reading about them on a TB thread. i like the set for several reasons, but among them is the compliant/bendy nature of them, and the very 'clear' sound.
i thought TI jazz rounds were pretty pricey, but dogal-hellborg stranded core sets are almost $80 USD, so they'd be the most expensive 4-string set i've purchased.
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i bought them just to try them out after reading about them on a TB thread. i like the set for several reasons, but among them is the compliant/bendy nature of them, and the very 'clear' sound.
Rotosound Swing 66 Double Ball End RDB66LD
$40
$40
Yeah, if you asked this question on the DB side, EB string prices wouldn't seem too bad.
Yeah, TI flats for $83.95?Yeah, if you asked this question on the DB side, EB string prices wouldn't seem too bad.
Definitely the most expensive I've ever bought, though I may have paid closer to $250, but I don't recall for sure.
Jazzdogg
Less barking, more wagging!
For electric, a five-string set of Dogal Hellborg rounds.
That said, electric bass strings seem reasonably priced in comparison to double bass strings.
That said, electric bass strings seem reasonably priced in comparison to double bass strings.
they were only $115 back in '99
Otherwise $64.00 for TI Flats for electric.
Dunlop Flats are coming in a close 2nd - especially recently.
Nothing special. Just $20 buck for Rotos. That's all I need.
For bass guitar it’s TI. But I’ve paid double for a set of violin strings.
Love those Sadowskys. $90 for a 4 string set. Glad I don't play a double bass.
Strings for my upright, most expensive overall, TI flats most expensive electric strings.
I paid $75 for mine back n da day from the Keene Musical String Co. ...they were only $115 back in '99
Otherwise $64.00 for TI Flats for electric.
Dunlop Flats are coming in a close 2nd - especially recently.
