EssentialTension

Yes, and they didn’t sound so different anyway. You could make more difference in tone by how and where you played and use of EQ.

The same song played at eg 70 bpm will likely require a different bass line to the same song played at eg 140bpm. Playing for the song and arrangement is what matters.

The flatwound strings fitted on 60s and 70s Rickenbacker basses, so I've read, were German made Maxima. No longer available but NOS are much sought after. IIRC, @Beedster sourced a set sometime ago. I might be imagining it.

Also, I was in a band in the mid 70s with a slide guitarist who used Rotosound Top Tape flatwound guitar strings on both his Dobro and his Shaftesbury Les Paul. Rotosound, Picato, Pyramid, GHS, La Bella, Fender, Gibson, Rickenbacker, and probably several others were all supplying flatwound bass and guitar strings in the 1970s.

1974 ... I bought a used c1964 Hofner Artist with short scale Rotosound Jazz bass flats with light blue silk - £30 1976 ... I bought from Woodroffe’s in Birmingham a new Fender Precision which was factory fitted with Fender flats with green silk (as I think were all Fender basses up to that time) - £220ish

This is what's needed ... a twotone sticker ...

That's why I prefer to call it 'pre-damaged'.

I find tone toothpicks have a sharper top end. The wooden ones not the plastic ones, obviously.

Weren't they atttempting to get a whole live album on just one side of 12" vinyl?

Sinatra at the Sands - with Count Basie & the Orchestra Arranged & Conducted by Quincy Jones Otis Redding Live! in London and Paris Bob Marley & the Wailers Live

Very nice.

£4.99 a dozen here ... https://www.stringsdirect.co.uk/accessories-c2/picks-plectrums-c50/standard-shape-c407/jim-dunlop-12-pick-player-pack-1-0mm-nylon-standard-guitar-plectrums-p8776

very nice

My own.

I'll be in the bar or somewhere else of cultural interest.

I'll be in the bar.

Can I just make clear that I don't like beaches, or playing on them, or sunbathing, or swimming in the sea, or any other related activities. I'd rather argue about how many grains ... you get the picture.

What abut the zither?

No.

Would that make violin and cello the same instrument too .... which I'd say they are not.

It depends on the use of the word 'play'. In my case it's probably somewhere between none and one. At a Christmas party some years ago, there was a piano. Several people got up and played mostly carols to which we all sang along. After my son got on the piano and played a few Christmas hits, e.g. Last Christmas, I said 'I didn't realise you could play the piano that well'. He replied 'I can't play the piano at all, but I understand how music works'. So, maybe there's a difference between actually knowing how to play an instrument and being able to get a tune out of it.

I would say yes they are good value and, as far as I was concerned, nothing was in desperate need of upgrade. I thought the pickups were great. The one issue I did have was that the fret ends were very slightly sharp/proud and needed sanding/filing but even that was not serious. Due to a health issue I am now only playing 30" scales, otherwise I would definitely have kept the Embassy.

Nice, mine was that colour.