Good looks and sound

This is the E string from the former Laurence Juber signature set by GHS. The brass-plated trebles are marketed as giving a rounder, less tinny sound than the usual tin-plated piano wire trebles. It's hard to believe given how thin that layer of plating is, but the one I just installed does seem to sound less jangly than the used, 11.5-gauge, tin-plated Newtone E string it replaces.

And it looks better next to the 4 lower strings wound in brass or bronze :)