Jaffa Road
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Wound G string (arabic tuning) ?
RE: a wound G string on an 58.5 cm tuned C-C Arabic style.
I currently have a pair of very worn out Pyramid 1006 I am about to replace the whole set with Kurshners and likely want to keep a wound G
Has anyone compared the Pyramid 1006 to LaBella .19
in terms of sound quality, durability and tuning stability.
Why are the single Pyramid stings 3X more expensive?
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coolsciguy
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Hi Jaffa,
I have tried the LaBella wound gg and they are a bit fragile and short lived. Perhaps the Pyramid ones are more durable. Sound wise they were ok but
not my taste.
-- Amir
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Brian Prunka
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The Labella strings are not as well-suited to the task as Pyramid. I tried experimenting a bunch when I had oudstrings.com. They sound kind of harsh
and tend to break. The lack of precise tension info also is concerning when tuning so high.
Really in terms of the lighter metal-wound strings, no one can match Pyramid for strength, warmth and longevity. I don't know what their secret is,
but they have some special designs or techniques that allow them to produce such a wide range of precisely tailored strings in very light guages. For
the heavier wound strings (A, F, C etc.) it doesn't matter as much and I think LaBella or Aurora are just as good, but for the very light guages
Pyramid has it figured out.
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Jaffa Road
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Thanks for the feedback Brian.
That is interesting what you said about breaking strings.
In over twenty years of oud playing I can recall breaking a string only once and that was a Labella .22 wound G string on my Godin Multi-oud this past
summer.
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