Product Overview
Features
- Round wound pure nickel over a true round core — extra sustain and gentle treble response reminiscent of flatwounds
- Thin-diameter, unusually dense nickel winding — retains warm jazz tone while extending into the upper frequencies
- Silk-wrapped string ends secure the windings and extend playing life; brass-plated plain steel trebles
Description
The Thomastik-Infeld BB114 is the medium entry in the Jazz Bebop series, built for players who want real jazz tone with a bit more edge and brightness than a traditional flatwound set delivers. Where other roundwound "jazz" strings compromise on tone, the BB114 is engineered around a vintage-style round core of high-carbon steel — no hex core — allowing the string to vibrate freely with no preferred motion axis, for extra sustain and a gentler treble response than typical roundwounds. The wrap wire is an unusually dense, thin-diameter pure-nickel roundwound that retains the warm jazz coloring while opening the top end into piano-like clarity.
The plain E, B, and G are brass-plated steel; the D, A, and low E are pure-nickel roundwound with silk-wrapped ends that secure the windings and extend playing life. Bebop is Thomastik-Infeld's answer for the jazz player who wants the mellow midrange and controlled tension of a flatwound but with more articulation and sparkle — supple, responsive, easy to play, and remarkably durable. At .014-.055, this is the heaviest gauge in the Bebop line — the traditional big-string choice for archtop players who want maximum acoustic projection, firm chord-comping authority, and the full-bodied low end that suits large-body hollowbodies and semi-acoustic jazz guitars best. Made in Vienna to Thomastik-Infeld's century-old standards.
Specifications
- Brand: Thomastik-Infeld
- Model: BB114
- Series: Jazz Bebop
- Instrument: Jazz Guitar (semi-acoustic / acoustic / electric archtop)
- Gauge: Medium (.014 .018 .022 .032 .040 .055)
- Plain Strings: Brass-plated steel (E, B, G)
- Wound Strings: Pure nickel round wound (D, A, Low E)
- Core: Round core (high-carbon steel)
- Winding: Round wound
- Silk End-Wrap: Yes
- Ball End: Yes
- Country of Origin: Austria
