D'Addario EFW74 11-36 Medium Flatwound Mandolin Strings - Phosphor Bronze

I have not used flatwound strings on my mandolin before and so far \I am impressed. They have a good bright tone and feel nice to play, so will likely order these again.

Who would have thought that bits of wire could change my life? They are the first set of round flatwounds that I have bought so I cannot compare them to others but I think these are quite splendid.

A word of caution, only the G and D strungs are flat wound. The A string isn't wound at all , which I mistakenly expected. Also the loop on one A string snapped before I had even wound any tension on the string. I normally love D'addario strings and thought these may be good for a try. I won't be pursuing that line of thought. Back to my normal round wound from now on.

Lovely strings that improve pleasure playing, delivered on time.

These took time to settle in and at first I thought they were inferior to the D'Addario round wound mandolin strings. But now a few days later they have settled down nicely and I like them a lot.

Have an old mandolin without a truss rod so these lesses the strain on the neck and the lift the sound of my mandolin.

Thought I’d try these as I really like the flat wound chromes on my six string. They are a similar quality to the chromes but: a) there was a kink near the loop ends of all the strings in one of the two sets I bought, as if dented. b) the sticky coloured tags, used to identify and keep together each pair, have a very sticky glue that sticks to the strings and is difficult to remove. c) the delivery guy left them with a neighbor without putting a slip through my door and updated the status to say it had been handed over to the resident. The package would have easily fitted through my letter box...

I should have checked the code on the D'Addario website, but EFW74s are stainless steel flatwounds, not phosphor bronze as this listing states.

I love them. Fast delivery, good price

Love these strings, gave my Northfield SF5 a warmer sound. Will definitely buy again

These flat wound strings make me feel at home, as if I'm still playing my violin. If you're looking for either a new feel from standard round-wound, or something new, give these a try. I like 'em!

slightly lower volume than round wounds , but way better tone I dont notice the difference but i play through a fishman amp with mic and pic up at rehearsals strings feel and glide better with better tuning stability imo

These are flatwound strings but they are not Phosphor Bronze they are stainless steel. Phosphor Bronze mandolin strings will read EFT74 on the packet and they are flattops which differ from flatwound. The G string tension is also higher. misleading so beware.