New La Bella Golden Alloy Flatwounds

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La Bella has new flats in the pipeline! These are expected to be officially announced at the 2017 NAMM show in January.

La Bella Golden Alloy strings are a 80/20 Bronze flat wound. This alloy produces a flat wound with a growly midrange tone. This alloy is also softer to the touch and easier on frets than a stainless flat ribbon. This combined with La Bella's super smooth polishing is going to make a beautiful string.

The look is stunning. They pop on sunburst finishes, natural finishes, and bring out the gold on basses with gold hardware.

This material does tarnish but it is cleanable. I actually look forward to seeing them get darker in color.

The photo attached is a prototype set... The actual silk color is expected to change.

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SLaPiNFuNK said:
La Bella Golden Alloy strings are a 80/20 Bronze flat wound.

This material does tarnish but it is cleanable. I actually look forward to seeing them get darker in color.
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Way back in my guitar-playing days, I used to use 80/20 bronze strings on my acoustic guitar. I didn't like the way they tarnished too quickly due to some chemical reaction with my finger tips, which turned green all the time. Maybe these are not for me.
 
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michael_t said:
Way back in my guitar-playing days, I used to use 80/20 bronze strings on my acoustic guitar. I didn't like the way they tarnished too quickly due to some chemical reaction with my finger tips, which turned green all the time. Maybe these are not for me.
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La Bella Golden Alloy is different from other 80/20 strings.

We will see how they are sooner than later!
 
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MCF said:
Somds interesting. I'm thinking I'll give them a go on my Epi Goth T-bird as soon as Jason can get them. Always looking for something a bit different and that bass is one of my "test beds."
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Will let the mailing list of my site know first!
 
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These look so good. I think I'll give them a shot on my fretless. I haven't been this intrigued by a new string set in a long time. Thanks for the post!

I'm assuming you can't release any information about pricing yet?
 
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SLaPiNFuNK said:
The photo attached is a prototype set... The actual silk color is expected to change.
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Oh man... Please let the silk be a Royal Purple. That'd be so rad.

Thuddy Waters said:
Are they going to be for electric bass? Will they work with magnetic pickups?
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This is an important question. Thank you for raising it.
 
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sowilson said:
How do you think these would work on a Taylor AB-1?
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If it has a bridge with bridge pins it may not work...


len13 said:
Hi Jason - Can they be used for through-body stringing?
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Not for the first batch at least.... They may add thru body versions later.


Thuddy Waters said:
Are they going to be for electric bass? Will they work with magnetic pickups?
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Yes. These are made for electric bass. The core is the main magnetic part of the string. The outer windings color the tone.


Bass'd on a true story said:
These look so good. I think I'll give them a shot on my fretless. I haven't been this intrigued by a new string set in a long time. Thanks for the post!

I'm assuming you can't release any information about pricing yet?
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Nothing set in stone yet... Still prototype phase.
 
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SLaPiNFuNK said:
La Bella has new flats in the pipeline! These are expected to be officially announced at the 2017 NAMM show in January.

La Bella Golden Alloy strings are a 80/20 Bronze flat wound. This alloy produces a flat wound with a growly midrange tone. This alloy is also softer to the touch and easier on frets than a stainless flat ribbon. This combined with La Bella's super smooth polishing is going to make a beautiful string.

The look is stunning. They pop on sunburst finishes, natural finishes, and bring out the gold on basses with gold hardware.

This material does tarnish but it is cleanable. I actually look forward to seeing them get darker in color.

The photo attached is a prototype set... The actual silk color is expected to change.

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Are they targeting the tone of some of the brighter flats out there (like Daddario, Ernie Ball and Roto for example)? Hope they are available in 1954 size.
 
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I miss the old D'Addario Reds. The ones from back in the late '70s. Not the 'copper coated' variety they produce today. The originals had just the right amount of purr and "smoove" - but still had plenty of growl on tap when you wanted it. And they sounded gorgeous on a Ric or a Ripper or similar mid-forward basses.

Closest generally available string that gets most of that are LaBella's copper-whites. So I'm definitely down for a set of these new strings as soon as they hit the shelves.

Any word on gauges? Or if a 5-string set will be available?

Thx for the heads up!
 
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I commented on La Bella's Instagram picture of these- if I wasn't already madly in love with my Game of Death Gold and Copper White Nylon tapewounds, I'd be all over these. Very cool to see how they are branching out and experimenting!
 
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