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Back in the day's, when animals still could talk, Pyramid strings were
easily available, but were considered as very uncool. As a matter of fact
there was not much choice, it was Pyramid or Piccatto. The public wanted d
Addario, they got d'Addario.
Roland Bettenville
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From:
Date: Saturday, April 03, 2004 14:20:23
To:
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] string prices, was: Re: In the bowels of the ($399)
beast(STRINGS)
Pyramid flatwound bass strings (as well as guitar strings) are
available in europe at
they have both short and long scale, one gauge only though, i think
they're about 35 euros a set.
I think guitar and bass strings is not really an issue for pyramid.
They're more in the market for classical instruments, at least that's
the impression I got from what they answered on e-mails: they don't
seem to give a toss about distrubiting guitar strings.
I know a dutch e-retailer is working on getting Pyramids in his
programm, but this is very preliminary.
--- In , "Jerry" <jerry.soetewey@b...>
wrote:
> Rock verb wrote;
>
> "actually,
> So there you go, yes there is steel war between US en Europe, but
it
> appearantly doesn't affect the price of the strings, it's rather
the
> retailers margin - chromes are 15 euros a set in the store."
>
> Hi,
>
> Indeed, it's the retailers margin.
> Last time one of the local music stores had an open house day, they
did
> a -50% on all strings, including d'Addario flats.
> Needless to say I bought a stack that day for my Jag. (got them for
8
> euro a pack that day, instead of 16, where they normally sell for
over
> here)
> The problem with "Pyramids" is a distrubution problem. For instance
they
> are not to be found in any Belgian music store I know of, while
they are
> produced in Germany. But d'Addario's are everywhere to be
found....Last
> week I picked up a set of "d'Addario flats" for our bass
player....It
> costed 50 Euro!!!! For crying out loud....While I Could of easily
got
> Pyramids Gold Flats for Bass for less.... if those where
available....
>
> Even the pyramids are not cheap,since most German retailers ask 8
Euro
> for shipping strings....If you bother to ask they reply, well the 8
Euro
> is for up to 30 Kg....As If I would order 30Kg of strings.....(I'm
still
> an old school guy when it comes to guitars and amps, what I can't
play,
> I don't buy....)
>
> Oh, well....Why do I even bother!? I should be better of playing the
> damn strings :)
>
> -Jerry S.
>
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