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Topic: New Martin Tony Rice strings - adaptable to steel? |
Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 15 Aug 2013 8:45 am |
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That's an interesting set of strings. The gauges appear to run from .013 (top) to .056) bottom - a bit thin for most dobro players preferences using open G tuning, but perfectly fine for open E tuning (among others).
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Jay Yuskaitis
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 15 Aug 2013 12:29 pm
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 15 Aug 2013 12:46 pm
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Why not indeed. I agree ... open E, E7th ... no problem.
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 15 Aug 2013 1:19 pm
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Andy did write "steel," not dobro. Buy a set and tell us what you think.
I've been wanting to order some of these strings to put on my Martin but I have several other sets here to go through first.
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Len Amaral
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Rehoboth,MA 02769
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 8:20 am
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Monel is a very hard material? Remember my dad told me when he was in the Navy
WWII that he made a ring out of monel in the machine shop. Havn't heard monel mentioned in many years. |
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Stephen Gambrell
From:
Over there
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Posted 18 Aug 2013 5:52 pm
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Gibson used to sell a monel set. And that's what they used to put on electric guitars. For Dobro 'G' tuning. Give the .013 to somebody. That .016 will be your new first string. Buy a .017, which will be your new second string. A lot of places (Mom and Pop's Guitar and Barbeque Shop---not the big guys) will swap you a .017 for a .013. That's for dobro G, and I believe the same as D'addario's reso set, J 42.
If you can find 'em, old-style Black Diamonds sound great on a dobro and pretty good on a lap steel. |
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