Flat wire strings

[Cedar Fever]

I am wondering if anyone has used these more expensive strings. I play the tenor guitar. I have both acoustic and electric. I am thinking of putting them on my Gibson electric tenor. Here is the question...are they worth it? How so? Thanks Cf

 

[Light]

I assume you mean flat wound, or ribbon wound, strings. They feel smoother than round wound strings, and they do not have any string noise. They also are not nearly as bright. They are most commonly used by jazz players. Personally, I do not like them (even for jazz).


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[darkorb]

But they sound good on a 4-string, especially if you're going for that fat bottomed 70's fender p-bass sound.

 

[JMarcomb]

I assume you mean flat wound, or ribbon wound, strings. They feel smoother than round wound strings, and they do not have any string noise. They also are not nearly as bright. They are most commonly used by jazz players. Personally, I do not like them (even for jazz).


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi

on the positive side ... they wont tear up a fretless fretboard

 

[Dani Pace]

Who knows? You might like flatwound strings, personaly I do not. I've even tried them for slide and was greatly dissapointed. We all have our preferences though, so go ahead and try a set, you will be out a few bucks if you don't like them but on the other hand they could be just what you're looking for.

 

[bongolation]

I am wondering if anyone has used these more expensive strings. I play the tenor guitar. I have both acoustic and electric. I am thinking of putting them on my Gibson electric tenor.

I don't think you'd like them on a tenor.

The problem is that the only strings that are flatwound are the heavier wound strings, the E, A & D. I don't know what gauges you use on a tenor, but I don't think you'd wind up with more than one, or at most two flatwound strings.

The problem I have had with flats on guitars is that they are almost stone dead compared to the non-flatwound strings, so on the .013" set of Fender 50s I used last, the effect on an arpeggiated chord was "thud, thud, thud, twang, twang, twang." Pretty uneven sounding.

On a four-string guitar, I think it would be worse, like having one dead string and three good ones.