Here's something you don't see every day. Tuned EADG one octave up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233085124241?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT (https://www.ebay.com/itm/233085124241?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT)
Can't be many of these around... I was just asking Mica about the "Shorter Scale Bass" a while back.
I asked the seller of this particular bass as to what the string gauges in its current tuning were as well as to who the manufacturer of the strings is .
Interesting - I had my 32" scale Spoiler/Exploiter set up as a piccolo for a while - it was fun!
Wolf, it'll be interesting to hear the answers to your questions.
I mulled over the idea of a 28" scale bass a little while back, since my upper back is such a mess its looking like eventually I'll be playing bass from a chair. A shorter scaled bass was one solution that seemed viable. Anyway, I remembered this 28" scale bass http://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=7466.75 and talked to Mica about it. So you could string this up to standard pitch with some regular short-scale strings too, though I'm guessing if this bass was built as a piccolo/tenor, the nut and saddle (and tailpiece) slots were filed for smaller gauge strings, so one would have to change that.
Wolf makes a great point... I really don't know where one would source strings for that length and gauge, for an octave above standard. I don't know if regular guitar strings would work. Maybe? Baritone guitar strings? I'm curious about that too.
I have yet to any response from he seller . I will give it another try or anyone else can as well . :)
DR and other string companies would probably be happy to make custom sets. I had them make me a piccolo set a while back for an experiment that didn't go so well (not because of the strings).
The seller responded and wrote that he does not remember what the string gauges are however he remembers that the manufacturer was : D'addario . :)
GHS has traditionally been very good about making custom sets.