How good are you at telling string gauges just by playing?

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So there we were on Saturday at the home of Bassgear with an array of lovely basses to try out - [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=97113"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=97113[/url]

OTPJ has been letting us try his Status and we'd been talking about how light the string gauge was (a set of Satus Hotwires with a 30 G string) when he picked up the stunning Fodera Victor Wooten Monarch.

I said to OTPJ that the Monarch strings were quite light as well and, in the blink of an eye, he ran his fingers over each string in turn and correctly identified the guage of every single one.

Now this might not sound that impressive but the bass was wearing a set of Fodera Victor Wooten Signature strings which come in at 40 / 55 / 75 / 95.

I've not seen another hybrid set with these guages & there's no way I'd ever have been able to identify them like this. Very impressed with Rich's ability to do this

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We should have let Rich play my Celinder... They're 47 68 80 107 !

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[quote name='Toasted' post='912878' date='Aug 2 2010, 03:03 PM']We should have let Rich play my Celinder... They're 47 68 80 107 ![/quote]

Damn - wish I'd known, that really would be a killer test!