Ernie Ball Pino Palladino flatwounds - £90 a set

[kevin_lindsay]

I've bought a set - better be decent at this price 

 

The most expensive strings I had bought previously were a set of LaBella "Jamerson" 1954 flats at around £50 (which seemed ludicrously expensive)

 

Anyone else ordered a set yet?

Or, any thoughts?

Edited yesterday at 11:48 by kevin_lindsay

[fretmeister]

Quite a bargain compared to those Dogal Flatwounds!

 

Even if I won the lottery I'm not sure I could get my head round paying that much for strings.

[Linus27]

I guess the good thing is it will be a one time payment as they'll never need replacing. Still, I doubt they are any different to regular Ernie Ball Flats so you are paying for the name. 

[Burns-bass]

Pino must be demanding a decent amount of cash for his name…

[steantval]

I would pay £90 for them if they made me play like him.

[Lozz196]

6 minutes ago, steantval said:

I would pay £90 for them if they made me play like him.

Cheap at half the price - I accurately doubt I’d manage that if I paid 50 times more for them.

[TheRev]

£90? If they last 30 years like a good set of flats should then they're a bargain.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

Snake Oil.

[Bigwan]

Paying quite a premium over the "normal" cobalt flats from Ernie Ball... Be interested to hear what the difference is beyond custom gauges...

[Beedster]

Whole set still cheaper than a single decent DB string 

 

But, yeh, they seem really expensive by the standards of electric bass strings, at least with DB strings there really - or usually is - is a noticeable difference in quality and tone as you go up through the price bands, I wonder if the same's true here? 

[wateroftyne]

How much better can they be than the tried & tested likes of La Bella etc? Are the silks made from unicorn manes?

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, wateroftyne said:

How much better can they be than the tried & tested likes of La Bella etc? Are the silks made from unicorn manes?

Well they are precision polished, which perhaps suggests that the standard strings aren't precision polished, merely polished imprecisely