Pyramid Gold Flatwound Strings

[bazmusicman]

Hi Eric,
The Ryders are very good and a nice sound too.
What I am worried about is the tension of the flatwounds compared to roundwounds. Having weak fingers/hands it might be to much for me if the tension is more.

[Hank2k]

Hi Mike

I brought a set of 11s and have them on my American Standard, i found them ok but nothing to excite me particularly.

I did have a lengthy discussion with Colin from the Rapiers at Lakeside and he uses guage 13 pyramid gold flatwounds and apparently the guage 13s are a different construction to the 11s and he believes that is the key, of course his talent has a lot to do with it aswell but interesting subject. I have yet to try the 13s but i will be shortly.

Thanks

Regards

Steve

Pyramid do 2 set's of Gold Flatwound 13s strings > Heavy 13 -17 -24w -33 -42 -52
True Vintage 13 -18 -26w -36 -47 -56

True vintage is the ones that Colin uses, im sure he also said that the construction of the true vintage is different to the others but dont quote me on that.

[Quadraverb]

Thank you Steve

[jimuc]

I have used D'addario Chromes 13-56's for a few years now and get a great sound from them.(I find wire wound too jangly)

I tried Pyramid True Vintage 13-56's and found they required quite a bit more tension than the Chromes so rather than alter the tremolo spring/truss rod setting, as I am more than happy with my set-up, I reverted back to Chromes.

[Iain Purdon]

Here's a non-technical suggestion from a bass guitarist who has tried rounds and flat. Whatever gauges of roundwound string you like playing, how about choosing a lighter-gauge flatwound set? If my experience is anything to go by, they should feel much the same to play.

[cockroach]

I've had a set of Monopole flatwounds on one of my gigging guitars for a long time now- they are 12-52 gauge- lasting very well and not too much tension for the neck (Strat copy)

[Billyboygretsch]

I visited the Pyramid factory about 15 years ago and was made very welcome. I was given a tour and given 6 sets of various flat wounds. As I understand there were two methods of construction. One wound tape over round wound and others were wound over hexaganol, which are the early ones. I wouldn't be able to qualify the difference in tone but apparently some can ! .

[Uncle Fiesta]

I presume that, because a flat wind is thinner than a round wind, the actual core of the string has to be thicker to compensate - which is what would cause the extra tension. With 12-52 roundwounds on my Strat, I'm using 4 tremolo strings already, so I'm confident there's enough adjustment left for flatwounds.

The Ryders certainly seem to get a nice sound out of theirs, and I notice their repertoire includes a couple of instrumental versions of songs that I've considered doing! They got there first ... the swines.

[Hank2k]

I visited the Pyramid factory about 15 years ago and was made very welcome. I was given a tour and given 6 sets of various flat wounds. As I understand there were two methods of construction. One wound tape over round wound and others were wound over hexaganol, which are the early ones. I wouldn't be able to qualify the difference in tone but apparently some can ! .

The hexagonal part is what i heard but cant find where. Apparently its only the 13-56 vintage set that are done this way.

[fenderplucker]

Hi,

for those interested, I did a comparison of some flat and round wound strings on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS9S6R2bOkc&feature=youtu.be

Paul.