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Monday, July 20, 2009

Re: Strings and things

In my previous post I briefly touched upon the topic of guitar strings.

I'd like to add a couple of things that may not be obvious to everyone out there.

1)When playing slide, the more tension you have on your strings, the easier it is to get a good, clean tone when playing notes with your slide.

2)If your action on the guitar (distance between strings and the fretboard) is too low, you may inadvertently clack up against the frets with your slide. Really light strings compounds this phenomenon quite significantly.

3) If you put extremely heavy gauge strings on your guitar, exercise caution and common sense for the following reasons:
-Your pretty pink little fingertips won't be ready for them right away if you plan on doing any fretting whatsoever.
-You will snap the strings unless you lower your tuning according to the gauge and max tension.(The specs should be listed on your string package)
-You risk warping the neck of your guitar.

4)Phosphor-Bronze alloyed strings generally sound the best on your dobro or resonator guitar, in my humble newbie opinion.

I'm sure I'll thing of more to add later, but that's it for now.

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