Flat wound chromes for slide?

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Flat wound chromes for slide?

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Tele is long overdue for strings, this one is always set in G tuning and I use light jazz strings with wound third.
Was in The Rotorua RS perusing strings & things and saw a set of D'Addario chrome flat wounds 52-12, bought em, yet to string up.
I'd imagine they might be good for slide, less string noise, some say dull sounding.
Anyone with an opinion on this?
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Re: Flat wound chromes for slide?

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Interested in hearing about your experience with these strings for slide.

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Re: Flat wound chromes for slide?

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Used to play with flatwounds on my old Esquire. 11-50 D’Addarios they were. Sounded great, especially through the 5E3 I also had at the time. A bit darker but then a Tele can do with that. Give them a go. :thumbup:

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Yeah bought the ticket and taking the ride, just got to re-string, been so long on this one. They'l be really dull what's on there.
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I don't play slide, but use Barre chords all the time, so all my electrics have D'Addario flat wounds fitted to stop the squeaking with chord changes.
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H671 wrote:I don't play slide, but use Barre chords all the time, so all my electrics have D'Addario flat wounds fitted to stop the squeaking with chord changes.
If it doesn't squeak, it's a piano. :shifty:
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Re: Flat wound chromes for slide?

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Use Elixirs (or other coated strings) to minimise squeak.
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I play slide on Chromes, no problem, sounds great.

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Thought I saw a Lowell George reference somewhere this morning too.

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