Fender Stainless Steel Flatwound Long Scale Bass Guitar Strings. The first mass-produced bass guitars in the 1950s were created by Fender, featuring flat-wound stainless steel strings, ...

You’ll also be able to feel the small ridges between the winds on the strings. Flatwound - Flatwounds are mellower sounding, with less top end. You normally get a nice, warm, fat low end with some ...

They were these flatwound strings that were really dead. And so I asked Jim and everybody, ‘Could you make a string that sounds kind of dead?’ And they did.

After rehearsing it, the Beatles reportedly did three takes, with only the third running through to the end. Paul likely used his Rickenbacker 4001 with flatwound strings and a pick.

However, with it's slightly shorter scale and tight flatwound string sound it soon found favour with UK bass players too. Jack Bruce, Eric Haydock and Klaus Voorman were seen constantly using the ...