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Topic: Steel Guitar Strings Poll |
Tommy Gibbons
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 4:46 am |
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The steel guitar strings I use are:
A. the "ones" used by the "stars"
B. nickle based
C. stainless steel
D. cobalt/brass
E. other
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 6:21 am
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Ulric Utsi-Åhlin
From:
Sweden
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 6:31 am
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| B & C.McUtsi |
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Bill Duncan
From:
Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 6:39 am
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B & C. No particular brand though.
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Hook Moore
From:
South Charleston,West Virginia
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 10:22 am
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 11:02 am My preference is.....................
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After decades of playing steel guitar, I've arrived at a point wherein I'm very choosey about what strings I adorn my musical instruments with.
I have a box of brand new GIBSON Standard Guitar strings in broken sets for my olde Rickenbacher Bake-lite steel guitars. Cost me $127.00 and had to wait nearly six months for them to get here from Texas. The tho't of installing them on more than a dozen Ricks has overwhelmed me completely.
For my Bigsby and Emmons I use nothing but the best....I use a special brass wrapped with chrome and an underpinning of magnesium, flatwound...... that is virtually unbreakable. They ain't cheap and I have to wait nearly 3 year to get them by special order from Czechoslovakia where this alloy was initially used for tank and aircraft cables. Circa 1920's. Don't knock 'em if you haven't tried 'em! |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 11:47 am
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| Nickel S.I.T have been my favourite string in recent years, i dont like stainless steel. |
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Ned McIntosh
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 12:43 pm
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B for me.
All sorts of brands, whatever I can get at the time. Ernie Ball, SIT, D'Addario, Fender etc. The Carter is pretty good on strings, doesn't seem to break 'em at all, or perhaps I've just been a bit ahead of the game.
Had to push a bit for my local shop to get 0.022" plain strings, but now they get them in for me in packets of 10. Still trying to get packets of 10 Ernie Ball 0.011" reinforced strings locally for my 3rd on the E9th, but eventually they'll come. Amazing just how many individual packets of spare strings you end up with in your gear bag.
I've never bought a full E9th or C6th steel-guitar string-set yet. Just individually.
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The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being. |
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 1 Mar 2009 8:43 pm
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| Frenchy's Silent Series in nickel. Also available in stainless. Dobro sets also. Jody. |
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Mike Christensen
From:
Cook Minnesota
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 3:53 am
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John Drury
From:
Gallatin, Tn USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 2:06 pm Re: Steel Guitar Strings Poll
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| Tommy Gibbons wrote: |
The steel guitar strings I use are:
A. the "ones" used by the "stars"
B. nickle based
C. stainless steel
D. cobalt/brass
E. other
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I used to change string brands like underwear up until I got my first new Carter. At that time Fabian recommended the Ernie Ball strings like the ones they put on at the factory. I have used them ever since. I use them on my newer Carter also.
Before, I changed strings about the time the 3rd string broke for the 2nd time. Now I change them just whenever I get around to it. I have never, ever popped a 3rd string on either Carter.
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John Drury
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 2 Mar 2009 2:13 pm
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| C (Jagwire) |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 1:05 am
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| C Jagwire |
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James Marlowe
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 5:49 am
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Jagwire-stainless.
I try nickle and other brands from time to time but always come back to Jags, stainless.
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J.R. Marlowe
Life has many choices. Eternity has TWO. I choose Heaven.
Black '95 Zumsteel SD10, 4+5;Black Mullen RP SD10, 4+5
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Brian McGaughey
From:
Orcas Island, WA USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 5:52 am
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| C. Jagwires from b0b of course. |
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Brian Herder
From:
Philadelphia, Pa. USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 6:09 am
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| A & B. I get the Ricky Davis Jagwires from b0b. I like the tone of nickel and the heavier gauges on the E9 set. Jagwires have the more flexible feel of European strings.. anyway, these strings work/balance and break less, and SOUND better on my Pro ll than anything I've tried. |
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Alan Harrison
From:
Murfreesboro Tennessee, USA
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Posted 3 Mar 2009 6:35 am Strings
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After 40 years of putting strings on pedal steels and using every manufactures strings, I put a set of Jagwire nickel on the Mullen in November. I haven't broken a string and it has been played about 12 to 18 hours each week. Yes they are getting a little dead so I am ready to put on a new set and they will be Jagwire. ah
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