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RE: La Bella Strings - Quality Control
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Ricardo
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RE: La Bella Strings - Quality Control (in reply to Arash)
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ORIGINAL: Arash Lorenza, also i have one problem with ALL flamenco guitar strings from all brands in the world and i have a suggestion, but don't know if it is technically possible to produce what i (and i bet 99% of all other flamenco guitarists) want. Its about the 3 bass strings. I have tried BASS strings from all possible brands in the world since years. You know we flamenco guitarists like that fresh metallic (and NOT dull) sound of bass strings when they are few days old... After few days , max one week , ALL flamenco guitar bass strings become DULL, like classical guitar strings. Some of them sooner, some a little later. But non of them sounds FRESH after one week anymore. I don't know if your engineers will be able to do something, but if you would be able to produce BASS strings which would keep that NEW and FRESH sound for several weeks, probably you would sell much much more from those to Flamenco guitarists. Until now i have the feeling that all producers sell more or less the same classical strings as flamenco strings. The difference is: Clasical Guitarists LIKE that dull sound, we DON't. We like the excact opposite. I don't know if you understand what i am talking about. But ask in your company if this is possible. Thanks While I agree some brands of strings are pretty short slacked which encourages you to have to buy more, even with the shortest strings if you simply take them off after a week, put them back on, they sound like new for a couple days again. Long length strings (like labella) allow you to do this several times by removing and replacing them a centimeter off center so the wear spots don't allign with frets, and again they sound new. And the more slack you have the more you can do this until the strings literally start to deteriorate or break (which they will). Ricardo
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Date May 7 2012 12:01:46
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a_arnold
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Joined: Jul. 30 2006
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RE: La Bella Strings - Quality Control (in reply to Ricardo)
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I have always defended La Bella. Unfortunately, I have to agree with Ricardo on La Bellas. I went to their gold trebles and Savarez red card (high tension) bass after seeing Sabicas in concert a couple of times and learning that he used that combo. I still have an old programme of his that lists the strings he played. I figured if I got the same strings as Sabicas, maybe I'd be able to play like him. Okay, so I was 10 years old. It was sort of like the way Craftsman has a pretty girl in their ad for a ratchet set. "Hmm. She seems to really like that ratchet set. Maybe if I had that ratchet set, she'd . . . I better get the ratchet set." The gold come under several different numbering systems. If anybody is interested I can list them. I don't know this for sure, because I haven't given the other colors (black, red, clear) a thorough comparison but I wouldn't be surprised if there was no significant difference between them other than the dye they add. LB certainly have genuine quality control issues, but I've tried a LOT of other strings and I keep going back to la Bella -- for the trebles only. The upside is that they are SO cheap (usually less than $1 per string) that I can afford to throw away the bad ones (most frequently the G string) and still come out ahead. I really love the Savarez red card bass, but I have to agree that they don't last very long. Incidentally, the d'Addario ej45c (which Castillo ships on his guitars) lasts a LOT longer and is almost-but-not-quite as flamenco sounding (to me, but that's a pretty subjective thing).
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Date May 25 2012 15:28:24
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