MY FAVORITE STRINGS
Guitar players, collectors and enthusiasts spend a lot of time talking about the legendary rare models, the fantastic sunburst finishes, the faded colors of days gone by, and soon ad nauseum, and many of them (us) overlook a component of guitars that is crucial to the most important aspect of any instrument: the sound.
MY FAVORITE STRINGS
Creem GUIDE TO GUITAR STRINGS
by
Allen Hester
Guitar players, collectors and enthusiasts spend a lot of time talking about the legendary rare models, the fantastic sunburst finishes, the faded colors of days gone by, and soon ad nauseum, and many of them (us) overlook a component of guitars that is crucial to the most important aspect of any instrument: the sound. That often overlooked component is the string itself; after all guitars, banjos, mandolins, violins, ukeleles, cellos, basses, dobros and dulcimers are all in the stringed instrument family, right? Still, a lot of people dont realize how important strings are to the best possible sound of any guitar. Nor do people understand the difference between roundwound, half-round and flatwound strings; or the difference between nickel-plated, stainless steel, brass, bronze, phosphor-bronze, silkand steel , and nylon strings and their particular applications.