You don't have to buy a special set of strings!
I have some one-off, custom instruments (10 string 17" mandola tuned C-G-D-A-E, 10 string 26" mandocello with octave pair courses tuned C-G-D-A-E, 10 string Hardanger viola with 5 sympathetic understrings....). I have to make up my own custom string sets based on the builder's recommendations for tension. No one is making packaged sets for my custom instruments.
Individual strings in a variety of types (phosphor bronze, 80-20, monel, chrome, flat wound, round core, etc.) are available at most music stores and all the on-line string guys. This ain't rocket surgery folks.
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