Strings Choice
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Year 2014 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Michael Thames Instrument Model Custom Top wood Cedar Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Anonymous StringsI like the balance of richness and brightness that they deliver and they last. -
Year 2015 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Michael Tulloch Instrument Model C-1 Top wood Spruce Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Gerald Osterman StringsI like the warm sound I'm getting with the Classic Reds better than any other strings I've tried. -
Year 1980 Instrument type Electric Builder / Manufacturer Mighty Mite Instrument Model Strat shape with a neck-through design Top wood Ash Side wood Ash Back wood Ash Player Russ Mallory StringsI have stainless steel frets, which are murder on strings: I have found that, of the treated strings available, the Cleartones last the longest (Elixirs last even longer, but they feel weird, and sound too dull for this guitar, which is pretty dark to begin with) while sounding closest to an untreated string. -
Year 1975 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Miguel Rodriguez Instrument Model na Top wood Cedar Side wood Cypress Back wood Cypress Player Patrick Kerber StringsI teach at Southeastern Louisiana University. I am a former student of Pepe's. I have done my best to maintain the strong right hand technique I learned from Pepe - These?strings do the technique justice in my opinion. Latest example; I recently successfully?performed the Canzonetta Aria in the New Orleans Opera production of Mozart's opera,?Don?Giovanni?on stage - All were quite surprised that I did not need a pickup or microphone on the big stage at the sold out 2,200 seat Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans. -
Year 1973 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Miguel Rodriquez Instrument Model La Wonderful Top wood Cedar Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Pepe Romero Sr. StringsI prefer the Hard Tension Rectified Set for these guitars as stage instruments. This set of strings gives me the most robust bass response and crisp penetrating trebles that carry in a concert hall. I feel that I can get the most tonal color out of these guitars with the Rectified Set Hard Tension. -
Year 2012 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Mikhail Robert Instrument Model Anniversary Model Top wood Spruce Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Koh Kazama StringsBass strings last long, trebles have a thick sound. -
Year 1988 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Musima Instrument Model Classical Top wood Spruce Side wood Spruce Back wood Spruce Player Igor Teplyakov StringsGood for training and developing finger strength. -
Year 2012 Instrument type Flamenco Builder / Manufacturer Navarro Instrument Model Flamenco Concert Top wood Spruce Side wood Cypress Back wood Cypress Player Roger O'Sullivan StringsThe hard tension provides the punch I need for dance accompaniment and the Titanium trebles provide a treble boost and better balance. -
Year 2015 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Obana Shigeo Instrument Model 7 string Top wood Cedar Side wood Cocobolo Back wood Cocobolo Player Joao Camarero Duarte StringsThe main thing I love about Augustine Regal Blue is that it extracts what the instrument has at it's best; it enhances the guitar with a great palette of colors, finest tone and it has great projection and stability. It also offers the perfect "pressure" both on right and left hands, enabling to play with a great dynamics range. -
Year 2015 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Omar Pannunzio Instrument Model Spanish Model Top wood Cedar Side wood Jacaranda Back wood Jacaranda Player Marcos Puna StringsThe cedar gives color and the RC Strings high tension nylon gives brightness. The first string has a very balanced tension, and a good sensitivity to the 'vibrato'. The third string has not a matt timbre like other nylon strings.