Guitar strings?
[2008-06-12 15:28:28]

Q: Hi, i have been playing guitar for about 9 months now. It has come, the time for me to change the strings of my acoustic guitar. I have 2 questions. Firstly, how do i find out what type of strings i have been playing all this time? (The guitar was a present

A: You should take your guitar to a local guitar store and ask them what Gage of string is on there. They should be able to tell. You can have them show you other gages and types of strings already on guitars. As far as switching to nylon or steel strings

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Guitar Strings?
[2007-07-24 13:33:03]
Guitar Pick

i don't understand the whole how heavy guitar strings thing is all about. Or at that, anything about guitar strings. Do different guitar strings give different quality sounds? If so, are there any that could kind of help make a dirty, fuzzy, yeah yeah


the wider (fatter) the string is, the lower it is supposed to be tuned. Denser metal will give a different sound than lighter metal. The higher the string is from the soundboard, the more overtones it will exhibit. This is Physics and it is...

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Too many strings on a guitar?

The result is that I can play simple thumb-strum accompaniments with first position chords, more complex stuff ( a la Richard Dyer-Bennet) if it seems appropriate to the song, or if the spirit moves me and I have a good tail-wind, I can still do a... I've also been playing guitars for about 50 years, and I cheated early on by taking classic guitar lessons and I practiced a lot. I took five months' lessons from a real Flamenco guitarist back in 1962, and I can still tear off a brisk Allegrias from time to time (even though a Spanish gypsy would probably sigh and roll his eyes)....

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Learn Acoustic Guitar Or Electrical Guitar? Pros And Downsides ...

Electric powered guitars often feature lighter strings, because the translation from the vibrations into seem depends upon the electrical pickups, rather than having the string vibrations picked up and amplified by the sound hole and hollowness of... But when you learn acoustic guitar following comparing it towards the really feel of its electric powered counterpart, you’ll recognize a distinction in just how the guitar strings and frets experience. The acoustic tends to be lighter in weight, being mainly hollow having a seem hole in front to exaggerate and enrich the vibrations with the strings....

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Back from the Dead: Gibson Revives Keith Urban Flood Guitar
Located, it so happens, in East Nashville on the banks of the Cumberland River, Soundcheck was overcome so quickly and unexpectedly by the swollen river that many musicians lost much, if not all, of their gear. Musical landmarks like The Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center all sustained significant damage as the waters rose. The city also sacrificed Soundcheck studios, an enormous rehearsal space where many of the city&rsquo.

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guitar strings?
[2007-11-15 18:05:50]
Out of Time

my acoustic guitar has a couple of problems. When i set the strings to a low action, i play easily but they all buzz heavily. When i set them to a high action the sound's clean but the g string still buzzes! what should i do to fix this. i have ernie


You may need to raise the bridge on only one side to fix this, like placing a thin shim under the bridge saddle, (the bone or plastic piece of the bridge that the strings ride on) a thin sliver cut from a plastic soda straw works pretty good. Might also

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GUITAR STRINGS??????????????
[2009-06-26 12:19:33]
guitar bites.

ok so I got new guitar strings to replace my old ones... while i was tuning the strings the g string snapped my old g string is plastic and the new one is not before my first 3 string were plastic... well anyways I have them all tuned but when i play


You may have gotten the wrong type of guitar strings. Classical acoustic guitar strings have 3 metal-wound strings and 3 nylon strings (the G, B, and high E). Folk acoustic guitar strings usually have 4 metal-wound strings and two steel strings (the

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