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Originally Posted by rmlone5555
Years ago D'Addario made strings called XL Reds that were copper coated and stated they had a piano like brilliance. They were excellant strings that had a snap to it. Then one time I went to buy them and found out D'Addario stopped making them. Could these possibly be the same string from another company?
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Interesting...never heard of those, but a quick Google search shows an ad from '84:
And here's a
post on TalkBass: "Hex core, nickel plated steel 1st & 2nd windings, copper coated steel for the outer wrap. Final winding is 70% steel 30% copper. "The steel supplies the necessary magnetic qualities for amplification while the copper imparts a piano-like brilliance"."
That doesn't sound like the new Reds, and I'd guess the guitar strings would be made like the bass strings.