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Bert Weedon Strings
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Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:45 pmby neil2726
I see someone has a few "Bert Weedon" strings, both flat wound and tape wound, for sale on E Bay. A rather young Bert is pictured on the packets and from what I can make out they were disributed by Boosey and Hawkes. I dont seem to recall having seen these strings in the music shops in my younger days - I take it they come from the early sixties, although I did buy Bert's "Play in a Day" at that time. Most of the local music shops seemed to stock Rotosound, Catherdral and Gibson.
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:18 amby dave robinson
When I first started going into music shops in 1962, there were no Rotosound strings, the choices were Monopole (tape wound) , Gibson and Catherdral. Rotosound appeared a few years later in our shops, in fact Fender, Gretsch, Ike Isaacs and James How were all around before we saw Rotosound. I had a feeling later that Rotosound were same as James How - something to do with Burns? 
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:21 amby neil2726
Your right Dave it was monopole and not rotosound that were available at that time.
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:26 amby dave robinson
I just did a quick Google. Burns strings were made by James How back then and James How strings became Rotosound in 1965. 
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:52 amby Paul Childs
I can remember Bert Weedon plectrums back in the 60s but not strings.
Don't remember seeing Gibson strings back then only the usual barbed wire like Monopole, Cathedral, Red Dragon etc.
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:24 pmby ecca
Red Dragon, with the free first string. String it up 1,1,2,3,4,5 so as to enable bending and finger vibrato.
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:28 amby RUSSET
Paul Childs wrote:I can remember Bert Weedon plectrums back in the 60s but not strings.
Don't remember seeing Gibson strings back then only the usual barbed wire like Monopole, Cathedral, Red Dragon etc.
I remember Gibson strings called 'Sonomatics'.
Tony.
Re: Bert Weedon Strings
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Mon Aug 22, 2011 9:49 amby JimN
RUSSET wrote:I remember Gibson strings called 'Sonomatics'.
They were more or less the industry standard and were certainly used by Shadows members from the mid-sixties into the early 1970s. You were still able to get them until the 1980s, and Gibson also introduced a "Sonomatic Light" set in the late 1960s: 11/12/19w/32/42/52, IIRC.
The company has rebranded its former "L5" set as "Sonomatic", but the modern set under that name are not of the original gauges (13/17/26w/36/46/56) as
real Sonomatics.
JN