Uke bass strings

[JPJ]

So here I am having a bit of a slow day so I thought "Ooh I know, I'll play a little bass" so I took out my little bass (Harley Benton CLU fretless) and low and behold the 'E' string has snapped. The strings were Aquila Reds and it looks like the string has snapped where it sits over the bridge saddle. No problem I thought, there's plenty of meat left around the tuning peg so I started to unwind and the string snapped again. Looks like the rubber (or whatever they are made out of) has perished and gotten brittle. 

Not wanting to invest in another set if this is going to happen again, I got to wondering what options there are for alternatives for these great little basses? 

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Before I settled on kala/gallistrings nylon core flatwounds on my ubass my favourites were the black Pahoehoe strings. i couldn't get on with the grippyness of aquila thunderguts.

[JPJ]

So after a bit of shopping around I’ve gone with the Aquila Black strings, and after the usual couple of days of tuning instability that these rubbery strings suffer from they’re settling in nicely and most importantly sound good. 

[TheGreek]

I have the standard white rubber strings on mine. The trick seems to be to tune it and then leave it to settle for a while.

The white ones cost around a fiver on Ebay, everything else is expensive in comparison.