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Rotosound Nickel Standard Light Gauge Roundwound Bass Strings (45 65 85 105)

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Rotosound Nickel Standard Light Gauge Roundwound Bass Strings (45 65 85 105)

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4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Product Features

High quality music strings manufactured in england since 1958
Superb tone,feel,power and volume
Long life strings
Finest quality materials
Legendary british tone

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Boxed-product Weight: 181 g
Item model number: RB45
ASIN: B0002GO3SW
Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 7 Sep 2007

Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,876 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

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Manufacturer's Description

When musicians were looking for a specific sound or concept, they would come visit me at the factory. Jimi Hendrix was not pleased with the sounds he would get when he bit his strings, so I developed a gauge which he thought 'tasted' right. The .006 and .007 first strings that he used to bite gave him the sound he was looking for.
James How, Founder and Chairman of Rotosound, speaking in 1992

Lars Mullen talks to Jason How, Chairman of Rotosound about the early days of the company
My dad James How pioneered all this back in 1958 and I have documents of him looking into making strings as far back as '53. He was certainly buying materials then, in reference to his collection of Austrian Zithers, which he was using as a musician, but couldn't get strings, and with his engineering background decided to make them himself. He designed his own machine and started up in his shed, simple as that really.

Originally he called the company Top Strings, but he couldn't copyright the name, so Rotop followed which evolved into Rotosound around 1965, derived from the Latin word roto, which means round. This of course tied in nicely with the company's flagship and the now world renowned, round wound bass string. Bass players loved this new round wound sound that cuts through the mix with more definition, as opposed to the flatwound string of that time, which was dull in comparison, and the only place to buy them was from James How at Rotosound.

It was John Entwistle who actually asked us back in the 60's, for a louder, bigger sound from a set of bass strings, hence the round wound bass strings he started using around '63. He thought, well I'm the bass player in The Who, but I can now compete with the guitarist, and as we now know the rest is history, and evidence that this was a totally unique product at the time, and none of the other companies had cottoned on to making round wound bass strings.

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Rotosound Roto Bass - RB 45 45-65-85-105 (Nickel Roundwound)

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The one and only for me 10 April 2011

By H. DI FRANCESCO

Initially I only picked these strings over all the other branded strings simply because they were cheaper. Then I put them on and I'm not buying a different set ever again :D .

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10/10 24 Mar 2011

By Forrow94

I put these strings on my Epiphone thunderbird, and it instantly brightened up the sound, they are great light strings with a beautiful feel and sound amazing with a good slap! 10/10

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Absurd value 7 April 2012

By Poverty Maguire

These are great strings and silly value for the price. Just a few pounds for strings that play great, last well, and don't feel cheap. I've played worse strings that cost up to three times the price. I might buy other strings in future out of curiosity, but never because I need or want a better string to play.

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Reliable Rotosound

These strings are simple, standard, and of very good quallity, they are exactly what you'd expect from a set of uncoated nickel strings. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Fred8816

alright if you're on a budget

Bought these to try them out as they were cheaper then the swing bass I was using, not a bad sound quality but definitely no substitute for the swing bass set, and for a couple of... Read more

Published 2 months ago by J. Maltby

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