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Topic: Anyone Tried These (GHS Rollerwound) |
Joe Drivdahl
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 2:40 pm |
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GHS Pure Nickel Rollerwound
Very smooth-sliding "semi-flat" strings. Round wire is slightly flattened in the winding process to provide a flatter surface. Strings have bright tone, but not as bright as roundwound strings.
1. F# .013
2. D# .015
3. G# .011
4. E .014
5. B .017
6. G# .020p
7. F# .026
8. E .030
9. D .034
10. B .036
They look kind of interesting.
JD
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 3:53 pm
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I haven't tried those; however, I have something similar on my guitar right now - Frenchy's Silent Wound Series strings. They are available in either nickel wound or stainless wound. I'm using the stainless wound. They are brighter than regular nickel wound strings, but not quite as bright as regular stainless wound strings. Here is a link to his web site:
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Joshua Grange
From:
Los Angeles, California
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Posted 6 Mar 2008 10:27 pm
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I have an endorsement with GHS and am using those strings right now.
They're interesting, I like them, but the gauge is a little too light around the 4th and 5th strings....
But the rollerwound thing is cool, definitely worth checking out. |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2008 6:02 am
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| These aren't something new. They've been makin' them for a long, long time. I tried them years ago. A 6-string set. For bottleneck stuff they were quite nice. |
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Joe Drivdahl
From:
Montana, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2008 10:00 am
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I'm gonna order a set just to try them out. Joshua, I noticed the gauges on the 4th and 5th too. .014, and .017 seem about one step too thin to me as I usually run a .015 and a .018. But we'll see what happens.
Thanks for the input, guys.
Joe |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 7 Mar 2008 11:44 am
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These are the "Nashville Gauges" and the same as the Sho-Bud, George L's and several other brands including the GHS SS E9th sets.
The "Nashville gauges" are what I was told by Mr Franklin to use on my Franklin guitar and what I've used since it was new in late 81. I use George L's Nashville gauges for both my E9th and C6th sets. |
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Paul Frank Bloomfield
From:
Greece
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Posted 8 Mar 2008 5:29 am Gauges
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The sets we had here,notably the ZB ones had a .014
and .017 for the forth and fifth. these were from the
seventies,see the address on the packet
All the best Frank Bloomfield. Corfu
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Ron Randall
From:
Dallas, Texas, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2008 10:15 pm
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These are great strings. GHS is a manufacturer, not just a label.
The rollerwound pure nickel is my choice all around. This puts the rollerwound strings kinda in between round wound and flat wound.
IMHO
YMMV
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Kevin Hatton
From:
Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 8 Mar 2008 10:39 pm
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rpetersen
From:
Iowa
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Posted 9 Mar 2008 6:15 am
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Is that the same string we used to use back in the 50's & 60's - I think they were called Flat Wound back then?
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 9 Mar 2008 6:20 am
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| rp, these aren't the same as flatwound strings. They're semi-flat. Still roundwound, but then kinda pressed a bit flat on the tops of the windings. They last much longer than flatwounds, which go dead in about an hour! |
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Ted Harris
From:
California, USA
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Posted 1 Oct 2012 4:39 pm GHS strings
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| I bought a few sets of their lap g strings - I use them for open D on my 6 string lap steel. I think they sound /feel pretty good, but the set includes an unwound (26) G string that I hate. I can never keep it in tune. I just sent off for a few wound replacements for this g/f# string. |
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