Harley Benton HQS Bass-5 45-128 Flatwound

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String Set for 5-String Electric Bass

  • High quality stainless steel flatwound strings for bass
  • Complete set .045 - .128
  • Long scale
  • Hexagonal core made of American steel for solid bass, optimal tension and constant volume
  • Individually coloured ball ends for easy mounting
  • String gauges: .045fw - .065fw - .080fw - .100fw - .128fw
  • Winding length 95 cm
  • String length (ball end to silk) 90.5 cm
Available since September 2021
Item number 514277
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Strength of the strings 045 - 128
Material Stainless Steel
Scale Long Scale
Number of strings 5
$16.30
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Smooth as silk
Leftyzorba 30.07.2022
Originally looking for tape wound or nylon coated strings for my 5string long scale bass, spotted these and noticed how inexpensive they were. They came and were easily fitted, they are perfect for long scale basses, trimmed approx 10 Cm from the ends and gave a very neat look to the headstock as red binding looks good.
Sound perfect, great on finger tips very smooth, great value for money.
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Beautiful strings with beautiful sound
orava 21.12.2022
Very nice, very soft to touch, perfect for fretless bass.
The red ends give a very nice final touch.
I'm by no means a bass professional, but I'm very happy with these strings.
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My first flatwounds.
Yngve66 29.12.2022
Bought a new jazz bass, so i wanted to try flatwounds on it.
Bought the cheapest i could find. It went very well.
The strings feel perfect. No flaws. Sounds good to.
So if they hold up in the long run, i will come back for more.
I have never played with expensive flats, so i don't know the difference.
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One string was wrong scale length :(
MediocreButEnthusiastic 02.01.2023
They sound great, feel great, I love 'em, but the low-B was the wrong scale length, so the set was not usable as sold. I have e-mailed Thomann, so I await to see whether their customer service will rescue the situation.

UPDATE: Thomann customer service was great. I messaged late at night and got a response first thing next day. Replacement set shipped the day after. Took about a week to get here, but most of that was spent at UK customs.

Second set has correct length B-string, but the end result is perhaps even more disappointing. The quality is awful. They come coiled in the packet like all strings, but I could hear it sort of crackle as I straightened it, the outer winding is not tight enough and you can feel it moving on the core. Unsurprisingly the string sounds pretty dead. After I wrote the first review I read some of the others and it seems this is not an isolated case (maybe I should have read them first!)

I don't have a 5-string, I bought these to try BEAD tuning on a 4-string. I used the good four strings from the first set in standard EADG and it sounded great, but the B just spoils the whole thing. If you have a 5-string or want to play BEAD the other strings are no good without a B. If you want to play standard 4-string though the 4-string set gets my recommendation!

I have never played a low B before, so I cannot compare it to other strings. I expect a bit less response at that low frequency, but I believe that other strings must be much better than this or 5-strings wouldn't exist.
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