What is a string taper length?
A. Large diameter strings often have 2 layers of wraps around the core. This makes it difficult to insert these large diameter strings through a guitar-type tuning key post. By design the outermost wrap does not travel the full length of the string and ends somewhere between the nut and the tuning key post. This is called the “taper length” and is measured from the string ball to the end of the outer wind. The taper length on the relevant large diameter string in our sets (gauge 84) is 31.5″.
