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Title: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: eb2 on January 24, 2011, 03:19:22 PM

I was going through my basses and found this in a case. It is an insert for French-speaking Canada that came with packs of Swing Bass strings.  I am guessing early 70's.  I got these in my gigging days while in Montreal.  Kind of fun, and not something you see everyday.

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: Dave W on January 24, 2011, 09:11:57 PM

Not big enough for me to read.

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: eb2 on January 25, 2011, 09:01:38 AM

Goofy.  Upload limit is 192kb, and I saved it at 191, but now it is smaller.  So here is a photobucket of it.

(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q58/eb2jim/rotosound.jpg)

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: eb2 on January 25, 2011, 09:07:16 AM

Also, the insert is florescent orange, which does not translate through the scanner.  The washed out orange is really much more intense than the string washer insert.

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: Dave W on January 25, 2011, 01:37:44 PM

Interesting that they included a washer.

French translations always seem to have more words than the English equivalent.

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: uwe on January 25, 2011, 02:30:51 PM

I only know them with washers, must have been a European thing.

French translations of any other language are invariably at leat one and a half times as long.

Title: Re: A fun Rotosound Relique
Post by: leftybass on February 01, 2011, 11:33:00 AM

I remember when they came with washers.