Strings Choice
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Year 2012 Instrument type Acoustic Builder / Manufacturer Guild Instrument Model F-30CE Top wood Spruce Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Brad Hogg StringsComment
Custom Customer Concoction | Guitar Craft Standard Tuning – Nickel Bronze Model: C3 GCST-NB Price: $12.74The gauges on this set are almost exactly the same as what most in the GC community have been using for years, with only a couple slight changes. But I have found that this set, while initially feeling slightly stiffer due to the NYXL plain strings and cores, wears in to a very responsive and easy to play feel. D?addario?s Nickel Bronze alloy has a slightly darker tone that has a slight pianistic quality, and is also naturally non-corrosive. This last point is especially important, as I often can play a set of these for several months and still retain clarity and focus and never have to clean them. I cannot recommend these strings enough. The F-30CE features Cocobolo rosewood back and sides, a Carpathian Spruce top, mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. -
Year 1970 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Guillermo LLuquet Instrument Model Spanish Top wood Spruce Side wood Sycamore Back wood Sycamore Player Peter Allan StringsComment
These strings lend a natural airy resonance to the guitar sound. They actually have a feeling under the fingers as if they were gut strings. Once settled in they stay in tune well and months later sound fresh and resonant. -
Year 2006 Instrument type Mandolin Builder / Manufacturer Guitarra Baiana Instrument Model Light Tension Top wood Mahogany Side wood Mahogany Back wood Rosewood Player Yuri Barreto StringsComment
These strings, in the mandolin intonation, make the sound great! -
Year 2006 Instrument type Mandolin Builder / Manufacturer Guitarra Baiana Instrument Model Tensao Media Top wood Mahogany Side wood Mahogany Back wood Rosewood Player Yuri Barreto StringsComment
I have a theoretical study of string tension, tested by great musicians. All of them very much like the strings with these tensions and scale length of 340mm - 360mm. These strings, in the mandolin intonation, make the sound great! It is a hybrid between guitar and mandolin, given totally to Brazilian musicality. -
Year 2006 Instrument type Mandolin Builder / Manufacturer Guitarra Baiana Instrument Model Heavy Tension Top wood Mahogany Side wood Mahogany Back wood Rosewood Player Yuri Barreto StringsComment
I have a theoretical study of string tension, tested by great musicians. All of them very much like the strings with these tensions and scale length of 340mm - 360mm. These strings, in the mandolin intonation, make the sound great! It is a hybrid between guitar and mandolin, given totally to Brazilian musicality. -
Year 2012 Instrument type Electric Builder / Manufacturer Gus Guitars Instrument Model G1 7 String Baritone Top wood Cedar Side wood Cedar Back wood Bloodwood Player TheRR StringsComment
This set was created to flow in tension response, magnetic response and proper string vibration in sync for lead players giving the set an Unwound 4th instead of a Wound 4th in essence. -
Year 2019 Instrument type Electric Builder / Manufacturer Heritage? Instrument Model 535 Top wood Maple Side wood Maple Back wood Maple Player Michael Sullivan StringsComment
Warm tone, no string noise, and they do indeed last much longer than less expensive strings. I think the 10s sound a bit better than the 11s. The 11s sound just a bit dead to me personally. I play through a Vintage Sound Amp voiced for jazz by Sound Island Music. Very clean with a lot of head room -
Year 2019 Instrument type Electric Builder / Manufacturer Heritage? Instrument Model 535 Top wood Maple Side wood Maple Back wood Maple Player Michael Sullivan StringsComment
Warm tone, no string noise, and they do indeed last much longer than less expensive strings. I think the 10s sound a bit better than the 11s. The 11s sound just a bit dead to me personally. I play through a Vintage Sound Amp voiced for jazz by Sound Island Music. Very clean with a lot of head room -
Year 2019 Instrument type Electric Builder / Manufacturer Heritage? Instrument Model 535 Top wood Maple Side wood Maple Back wood Maple Player Michael Sullivan StringsComment
Warm tone, no string noise, and they do indeed last much longer than less expensive strings. I think the 10s sound a bit better than the 11s. The 11s sound just a bit dead to me personally. I play through a Vintage Sound Amp voiced for jazz by Sound Island Music. Very clean with a lot of head room -
Year 1972 Instrument type Classical Builder / Manufacturer Hernandis Instrument Model Grade #1 Top wood Pine Side wood Rosewood Back wood Rosewood Player Tom Salvatori StringsComment
I use the Savarez High Tension strings for balance, better intonation, clarity of voices and overall warmth - they are my everyday strings.
