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by neil2726 » 19 Aug 2011, 16:45
I see someone has a few "Bert Weedon" strings, both flat wound and tape wound, for sale on E Bay. A rather young Bert is pictured on the packets and from what I can make out they were disributed by Boosey and Hawkes. I dont seem to recall having seen these strings in the music shops in my younger days - I take it they come from the early sixties, although I did buy Bert's "Play in a Day" at that time. Most of the local music shops seemed to stock Rotosound, Catherdral and Gibson.
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by dave robinson » 20 Aug 2011, 00:18
When I first started going into music shops in 1962, there were no Rotosound strings, the choices were Monopole (tape wound) , Gibson and Catherdral. Rotosound appeared a few years later in our shops, in fact Fender, Gretsch, Ike Isaacs and James How were all around before we saw Rotosound. I had a feeling later that Rotosound were same as James How - something to do with Burns?
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by neil2726 » 20 Aug 2011, 00:21
Your right Dave it was monopole and not rotosound that were available at that time.
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by dave robinson » 20 Aug 2011, 00:26
I just did a quick Google. Burns strings were made by James How back then and James How strings became Rotosound in 1965.
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by Paul Childs » 21 Aug 2011, 11:52
I can remember Bert Weedon plectrums back in the 60s but not strings.
Don't remember seeing Gibson strings back then only the usual barbed wire like Monopole, Cathedral, Red Dragon etc.
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by ecca » 21 Aug 2011, 19:24
Red Dragon, with the free first string. String it up 1,1,2,3,4,5 so as to enable bending and finger vibrato.
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by RUSSET » 22 Aug 2011, 09:28
Paul Childs wrote:I can remember Bert Weedon plectrums back in the 60s but not strings.
Don't remember seeing Gibson strings back then only the usual barbed wire like Monopole, Cathedral, Red Dragon etc.
I remember Gibson strings called 'Sonomatics'.
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by JimN » 22 Aug 2011, 09:49
RUSSET wrote:I remember Gibson strings called 'Sonomatics'.
They were more or less the industry standard and were certainly used by Shadows members from the mid-sixties into the early 1970s. You were still able to get them until the 1980s, and Gibson also introduced a "Sonomatic Light" set in the late 1960s: 11/12/19w/32/42/52, IIRC.
The company has rebranded its former "L5" set as "Sonomatic", but the modern set under that name are not of the original gauges (13/17/26w/36/46/56) as
real Sonomatics.
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