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Wow, this has turned into a very esoteric subject indeed!
Let me interject a request for opinions: have any among you tried
half-round (also known as "ground wound") strings? These are round
wounds that have been milled to create a flat-wound profile. D'Addario
claims they are a compromise between the tonal "twang" of round wounds
and the smooth feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds.
Opinions?
I once tried them.
They are excately what they say: a compromise
They don't have the twang of the roundwounds and they don't have the smooth
feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds either.
Roland Bettenville
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From:
Date: Sunday, April 04, 2004 18:19:32
To:
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Strings...
Wow, this has turned into a very esoteric subject indeed!
Let me interject a request for opinions: have any among you tried
half-round (also known as "ground wound") strings? These are round
wounds that have been milled to create a flat-wound profile. D'Addario
claims they are a compromise between the tonal "twang" of round wounds
and the smooth feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds.
Opinions?
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Half-rounds are like the spork that you get at KFC. It's not good as a spoon nor
as a fork.
----- Original Message -----
From: Roland Bettenville
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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [SurfGuitar101] Strings...
I once tried them.
They are excately what they say: a compromise
They don't have the twang of the roundwounds and they don't have the smooth
feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds either.
Roland Bettenville
-------Original Message-------
From:
Date: Sunday, April 04, 2004 18:19:32
To:
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Strings...
Wow, this has turned into a very esoteric subject indeed!
Let me interject a request for opinions: have any among you tried
half-round (also known as "ground wound") strings? These are round
wounds that have been milled to create a flat-wound profile. D'Addario
claims they are a compromise between the tonal "twang" of round wounds
and the smooth feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds.
Opinions?
..
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I have used ground-wounds on my bass...but, that's a
different tonal range than guitar...I did.nt like them
because the difference between the ground-wound and
flat-wound sound was not distinct...flat wounds felt better
under the fingers, and ground-wounds didn't produce a
significant difference in tone to matter much to me. But,
again, that's bass NOT guitar...
DP
--- Gavin Ehringer <> wrote:
> Wow, this has turned into a very esoteric subject indeed!
>
> Let me interject a request for opinions: have any among
> you tried
> half-round (also known as "ground wound") strings? These
> are round
> wounds that have been milled to create a flat-wound
> profile. D'Addario
> claims they are a compromise between the tonal "twang" of
> round wounds
> and the smooth feeling and mellower tone of flatwounds.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
>
> .
> Visit for
> archived messages, bookmarks, files, polls, etc.
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
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