EssentialTension

Compliance refers to the feel, the flexibility, of the string under the fingers (or pick) and is often confused with tension. Tension is fixed for the whole string between bridge saddle and nut - given (1) fixed mass per unit length, (2) fixed scale length, and (3) fixed pitch. But, although tension remains and must remain the same all along the string length, a string is more compliant when played at or around the 12th fret than it is when played near to the bridge. Like tension, but not in the same way, compliance is affected by internal string construction - e.g. hexcore/roundcore - but possibly by other factors that have no effect on tension such as break angle at the nut. Read all about it here ... http://www.liutaiomottola.com/myth/perception.htm ... and here ... https://www.liutaiomottola.com/formulae/tension.htm

Not merely by weighing the string, no. You'd need to calculate mass per unit length of the string and allow for any variation in pitch and/or scale length. And it would still not tell you about compliance.

To me that seems a lot of trouble to go to when you could just buy the right scale strings.

That's a total mess. And surely you'd need to play it with a pick if it was playable at all.

And how much would the binned dampers fetch today on ebay?

Surely the whole thing doesn't merely hint at 60s design but is actual 60s design.

I have used ... TI Jazz Flats La Bella 760N La Bella 760S La Bella 760L Rotosound Trubass ... they all worked.

That's my favourite.

And the B-side Ladywood in Red

I read it somewhere but I have no idea if it's true.

Longbridge Over Troubled Water

Take Five Ways

On a Fender Mustang??

I reckon I was at half of those gigs ... but I don't recall which half.

And the drummer looks like Hal Blaine.

very possibly

Entwistle had one too ... As did the guy in The Hollies ...

No.

True enough

Scott Walker ...