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Topic: The right tone bar and strings |
Russell Adkins
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Louisiana, USA
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Posted 8 Jun 2019 8:25 am |
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| I was wondering if different materials have been tied for a tone bar such as glass and some type of resins? and flat wound strings have they been tried for smoothnes? anyways just askin here. |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 8 Jun 2019 10:50 am
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Flat wounds sound horrible in my opinion. No life to the sound of the strings.
Many types of materials have been tried for bars. Metals, resins, plastic, and other materials that I don't really know what they are.
One place:
https://rockymountainslides.com/tone-bars/
Basil Henriques makes what I hear are some awesome bars. I don't have a website for him
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Carter D10 8p/8k, Dekley S10 3p/4k C6 setup,Regal RD40 Dobro, Recording King Professional Dobro, NV400, NV112,Ibanez Gio guitar, Epiphone SG Special (open D slide guitar) . Playing for 54 years and still counting. |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2019 1:12 am
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| In my opinion, Bass and big jazz guitars are the only place flat wounds are appropriate sometimes. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 9 Jun 2019 6:32 am Re: The right tone bar and strings
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| Russell Adkins wrote: |
| I was wondering if different materials have been tied for a tone bar such as glass and some type of resins? and flat wound strings have they been tried for smoothnes? anyways just askin here. |
For a bar to provide adequate sustain, it must possess a certain amount of mass and hardness. Some players, like myself, occasionally use bars made from something other than hard and heavy metal, but it's not a regular thing.
As far as the flatwound strings, they sound a little "dead", and the noise made by round-wound strings isn't nearly as bad or offensive on a steel guitar when a large radius bar is used. |
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