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RE: wound strings

HarryM — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 12:47:16 GMT

Back in the late 60's early 70's, I used Black Diamond on my nylon string acoustic.

RE: wound strings

SG — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:58:56 GMT

I still swear by the plain G, but it does require a bit more maintenance to keep in tune. Usually a little bit of pencil graphite in the nut slot, along with good winding technique, will do it. I have heard all the claims about better tone and less re-tuning with a wound string, but the plain one just feels right to me, esp. when bending.

Didn't the original Black Diamond strings come with 5 wound? I think I heard Dutchy Mason say in an interview one time that when he got started guitar players would buy Black Diamonds, then string their guitar 'one string out' i. e. using the A for low E, D for A, etc, then use either a banjo string or a piece of a piano string to complete the set to facilitate bending on the thinner strings.

Does anyone remember Black Diamonds?

RE: wound strings

Bill Christy — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:39:13 GMT

Rich,

Funny you should say that I just got the issue yesterday in the mail. I was reading that as well as the article on Albert Cummings a local guy from MA, last night.

Bill

RE: wound strings

relli3 — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:06:26 GMT

Bill, check out the picture on page 43 guitar one january 2005.

RE: wound strings

Bill Christy — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:10:19 GMT

Relli,

I remember we had this discussion in the old forum, about wound strings. I haven't ever seen all 6 strings wound though. What he may do is get individual B and E strings

I play with D'Addario EJ21s 12-52 with a wound G string, I find the G string stays in tune 100% better than unwound. I also think that with the wound G you get a thicker more resonant note as oppossed to thin sounding. Chafins come from the shop with 10-46s and while they sound great, the EJ 21s make it sooooooo much better. The heavier wound strings I think are easier to bend also and I have much more control. Hope this helps.

Blzman

wound strings

relli3 — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:10:39 GMT

ive given little thought to strings since picking up the axe a few years back so understand where my ignorance comes from when i ask this. recently saw a picture of a guy bending the strings on an electric 6 and noticed all 6 were wound. is that uncommon because all ive ever had on any of mine were three wound and three unwound. whta diff does this make in sound if any?//o-o\\