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@Silvia Bluejay has just pointed out (elsewhere) that the low B in a set of D'Addario strings is purple. And I thought, "why?".

Given how many colours start with the letter B, why would you make your B-string ball-ends in a colour that doesn't start with B?

And then I thought about it some more.

The G-string is no problem at all, and the A-string is manageable, but trying to find colours that work with the E-string and D-string has turned out to be more problematic than I'd expected.

Despite what Crayola says, I'm not sure that Electric Green is actually a colour, and don't get me started on finding colours that beging with D.

Do I win a prize for Most First World Problem Of 2020?

 

 

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5 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

Does anyone really need to rely on the colours to tell them apart? My Elixirs and Status Hotwires are all the same colour. 

In fact, I normally string my basses in alphabetical order. :|

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The only use I can think of is when you buy a new or used bass, really like the strings that come with it and want to be able to identify the brand from the colour of the ball ends or windings so you can get more. 

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I'd expect that the basses coming out of a factory with gold-coloured b-string ends is due to the factory buying in bulk 4-string sets and then adding a single string for the low B, all of the single strings have gold ball ends and i have found the same buying strings from the small independent guitar shop in town, he doesn't keep 5 string sets of the xl's but does have a stock of .125's to make them up.#

A qiock check of the chromes on my Lett's 5er shows a purple low B, this was definable a 5 string set as it was ordered in specially for me (the owner used to work with some of the guys at the D'addario warehouse back when he worked at CSL and the warehouse is half way between the shop and his home so he collected the strings on his way home and i got them next day.)

 

Matt

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