D’Addario ETB92 Tapewound Bass Guitar Strings, Medium, 50-105, Long Scale
Designed to produce a deep, warm tone with smooth feel, D’Addario Tape wound Bass strings are wound using a flattened black nylon which is polished to an ultra-smooth finish. These long-lasting, well-balanced strings are expertly engineered to provide optimal tension and are gauged to fit properly on standard bass saddles and nuts. Tape wounds may be used on fretted or fretless basses and are designed to deliver a vintage tone ranging from the thump of an upright bass to the focused depth of traditional flat wound strings.
Product Features
- Engineered to provide optimal tension and gauged to fit properly on standard bass saddles and nuts
- Flattened black nylon wound for a warm, deep tone
- Fits long scale basses with a string scale length of up to 36 1/4 inches
- Made in the U.S.A. for the highest quality and performance
- String Gauges: Wound .050, .065, .085, .105
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Gentle on your fingers, and a classical bass sound. Beginners and anyone who doesn’t hate their fingers should start here. As a beginning electric bass player, I was incredibly put off of practice due to feeling like my fingers were being run over a cheese grater. I have no compunction for believing that it shouldn’t be necessary to mutilate your body to learn a musical instrument, and so I began to seek some alternative. I found these, and my fingers and I couldn’t be happier.To quote a guitar playing friend, “OH MY GOD THEY’RE LIKE GLASS!” Just touching these strings sold him. They are…
Perfect for fretless! Absolutely terrific! The last time I bough tapewound strings was 1994 and the overwrap was literally wound nylon flat tape…unraveled when you cut it, wore at the bridge, etc. These seem to be a uniform coating or sheath, looks almost like heat shrink but obviously much thinner and flexible.Tremendous feel, just a touch mellowed than roundwound sound but still a lot of articulation. Perfect “mwwahhh” on a Macassar Ebony fretless fretboard, a good old school soul and even…