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La Bella Has Over 400 Years of String Making Experience
The tradition of string making dates back to the 1640s in Salle, Italy, where the Mari family supplied gut strings to the famous violin builders of Cremona. In 1913, brothers Olinto & Emilio Mari arrived in New York bringing their family craft to the States. Over the years, the brothers shaped the landscape of the string industry with their innovative designs. Every set is manufactured using a perfect combination of traditional methods and latest technologies to produce a superior string.
800L Jazz Tapes - Black Nylon Light 12-56
La Bella Jazz Tapes are the secret behind the sound of the best professional jazz players in the world. These strings are handcrafted with a proprietary black nylon tape, wound on a hexagonal core. The result is a flat and extremely smooth string, producing a warm, jazzy sound with zero finger noise.
- Black Nylon Tape for warm, jazzy tone
- Tension: Light
- String Gauges: Plain Steel .012, .015, Black Nylon Tape .028W, .038, .048, .056
- Wound length of 31.5″ (distance from ball-end to silk); only the silk portion should wrap around the tuning post
- Made in the USA with American Wire
- Packaged using MAP Technology (Modified Atmosphere Packaging) to prevent tarnishing and ensure freshness
Ed Metzler
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
These black jazz tapes have great tone and don’t produce any left hand noise. I popped one string installing it on my D’Angelico and asked the company if I could buy just one replacement string. They sent one to me for free.
Mrs. Gomez, Elementary Teacher
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2024
2 strings went bad and started buzzing within 2 weeks. Would appreciate a refund.
gilonamazone
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2024
This set is to thinfor a jazz box.. the strings are dancing all over the place.I'll have to try the 0.14 and see if it gives better resultsI'm sure since it's a La Bella the manufacturing quality is great but I can't really understand what benefit could this set give
David Elorza
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024
These sound and feel fantastic. I’m about to string up the rest of my hollow bodies with these.
phlox
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
I have an alvares acoustic that has real nice bright sustain. I have tape wound strings on my electric bass and they have a warm mellow tone and are easy on the fingers. So I thought why not on my acoustic.These are almost the same weight as the light dadarrio strings I've been using on the acoustic for years so I didn't see an issue with swapping them out.These strings are very well made. No issue there. Once I had the guitar restrung the action seemed slightly off so I did the usual slight truss rod adjustment to level things out but no matter what the strings would detune when fretted. So when playing a tape wound string adjacent to a steel string they were very noticeabley out of tune.It seemed like though the strings were numbered the same as others the tension weight was not close to that of steel strings and just wouldn't balance out on the guitar I was using. Maybe better suited for a guitar with fine adjustment on single strings.That being said I played around with the guitar for a few days in the best shape I could get it and then restrung it with steel strings. Again very high quality strings just not right for my guitar.
Matteo Pegna
Reviewed in Italy on March 12, 2024
Corde realmente professionali per chi cerca un timbro diverso dalle solite flatwound.Da usare con una chitarre Hollowbody Jazz di fascia alta per poterne apprezzare realmente il suono, trovo che non abbia senso abbinarle ad una solidbody qualsiasi se non per chi vuole sperimentare soluzioni alternative....Sono corde destinate a chi suona jazz con una certa consapevolezza, il suono è scuro ma pieno di sfumature e armoniche interessanti, con un bell'attacco e ottimo sustain, non sono paragonabili a nessun'altra corda di solo metallo.Il tape wound di nylon è liscio e perfettamente lucido, a differenza di quello di un'altra blasonata marca il cui nylon è setoso, ruvido e filamentoso.La sensazione al tatto è ottima, sono corde realmente flatwound, cosa che di questi tempi non è più scontata! Molti produttori spacciano come flat delle terribili corde molto ruvide.La tensione delle "M" è abbastanza sostenuta ma il suono ci guadagna moltissimo.Sono corde abbastanza grosse ma una volta che ci si abitua (molto in fretta) si apprezzeranno di più rispetto alle corde più fini.Nonostante tensione elevata e e grosso diametro sono corde facili, agili e veloci!!!Le White tape hanno un suono più "chiaro", da usare per chi vuole un timbro più squillante o per chi ha chitarre tendenti al suono scuro.Le consiglio vivamente, sono tra le migliori corde che si possano trovare!!!
Morgan L. Williams
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
I'm just learning the guitar, and I was concerned about not hurting my fingers. I bought an electric guitar for $70 that came with steel strings. I replaced all of them with nylon and they sounded great. Somebody told me that nylon strings might not be picked up and amplified, but that was false. If they work on an inexpensive guitar, they'll work on any of them.
It sucks
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
It is easy to play.You her a nice warm sound.And these are ridiculously easy to bend.They feel like I'm bending 9s.The guy is right these do buzz but that's because there nylon strings and nylon strings are more suspectable to buzzing.You just can't play with a lot of attack and the buzz will not be there.I think it's good value for the money.The Strings are Thick.They suck acousticly but plugged in It has. Rich sound.I think these are one of the best strings I've played I would highly recommend theese.What works for me might not work for you but I like themI hope this review was helpful
Renrew Lekrof
Reviewed in Germany on August 28, 2022
Die Saiten sind so dick, dass ich sie nicht auf meine Jazzgitarre aufziehen konnte, weil sie weder am Saitenhalter noch am Steg und Sattel in die Aussparungen passen. Dabei sind die umwickelten Saiten extrem weich und scheppern bei niedriger Saitenlage. Die erforderlichen Änderungen an der Einstellung der Gitarre wollte ich nicht vornehmen.
かゑる
Reviewed in Japan on December 27, 2014
Goodです。ネットで取り扱いが少ないので助かります。送料を考えるとAmazonさんが最安値でした。
Sam
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2013
Really it's 4 and a half stars.First off, I use these strings on an electric custom made 7 string Baritone guitar tuned from low F# to high B (a fourth lower than standard tuning). I specifically use these to play jazz chord melodys (I have no idea what these would sound like distorted or for rock). The strings give a warm flat tone for all of my chord melodys and great highs for the soloing aspect. Despite the fact that this would be considered an extremely heavy gauge, the combination of my low tuning and the fact that strings 3 through 6 are black nylon tape make for very easy playing with little tension.My main complaint is that the lowest string (seventh .079) is not a black type flat wound but a full round wound. this somewhat kills that jazz tone I go for and I know that the gauge is not impossible to make on black tape nylon.If you need flatwound string for a baritone jazz guitar (I know that's not too often) then these are great strings and you should give them a try. From one to ten I give them an 8.75.
Steve D
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2012
I bought these for an archtop guitar with a floating pickup and they sounded very good; a vintage kind of tone and very responsive BUT I found the bass strings to be very prominent. The set was almost unbalanced for many kinds of playing but almost perfect for fingerstyle chord-melody playing, where a full solid bass is desirable. If that's what you play, then I can't recommend them highly enough. For rhythm playing in a band - you have to be very careful with your tone settings.Subsequent edit, after a longer time with this product: they also go out of tune quite readily. With other strings that I have been using recently, I can come back to my guitar after a while (even a few days) and find it pretty much in tune. That hasn't happened with these, and although I will always tune up before playing (duh!) it doesn't give you that much confidence that they're going to hold their tuning during the heat of a gig.
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