Επίσης αυτό
το λέει ξακάθαρα:
TAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE
Yet another design controversy concerns how the windings should be terminated at the bridge end. In the early 1970s, Rotosound introduced a bass string with windings that stopped just before the bridge so the exposed core passed over the saddle, thus improving flexibility and sustain. (Anthony Jackson says he suggested this idea.) Although Rotosound still owns the patent on the exposed-core design, many companies offer "taper-wound" (often erroneously called "taper-core") strings, which may have only a single winding over the saddle. (See page 42) "We originally did that to improve the string's articulation," says Trace Elliot's Mike Markure. "But we've found that taper winding helps intonation a great deal also." Jim D'Addario sharply disagrees with this observation: "A string, in order to divide itself properly into equal vibrating parts in its overtone series, has to be equal in diameter and mass-per-unit-length from one end to the other. So in order to make a taper-wound string almost play in tune, you need to compensate your bridge way out of the equilibrium point. You might get your octave to sound like the 12th-fret harmonic, but in that case some of the other notes will be out of tune." Tim Pfouts of SIT has yet another perspective: "Some people like taper-wound strings, but I think they get sloppy because they don't have as much mass going over the saddle. Taper winding does get the string closer to the pickup, though, which is an advantage."