Re: Expensive but totally worth it
Originally Posted by
Franc Homier Lieu
I just put a set of TI flatwounds on my Flatiron Festival yesterday. These are expensive strings, and were made more expensive by the low Canadian dollar, but they were totally worth it. I mean, they sound terrible, and I will be taking them off very soon and replacing them with DR 11s or with a set of D'Addario EXPs that I got a while back. But it was totally worth $70 to find out for myself that I don't like flatwounds (on this mandolin). Money well spent!
Well, i wasn't expecting to read that! Heh!
Maybe as an alternative people can go to guitar shops that have jazz archtop guitars, which are usually strung with flatwounds and often only a neck pickup and try playing those to get an idea about those. (I have a few instruments with flatwounds but what else are you supposed to put on a violin or viola?)
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