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Joe Burke

 

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Post  Posted 23 Feb 2023 6:01 pm    
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Tonight I was rehearsing with a band on my resonator. At one point I played a little harder than usual up around the 12th fret and I think the string went from sounding fairly new, to a little ratlely/old sounding. Has anyone noticed a quick transition like that?
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Greg Booth


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Anchorage, AK, USA
Post  Posted 23 Feb 2023 10:13 pm    
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Yes. Was it the middle G string? The winding is a fine bronze wire and it’s always the first to go. When I was first starting out with the dobro my instrument wasn’t very loud and I remember wrecking a brand new string after one song in a loud jam trying to hear myself. Many players carry spare G strings to extend the life of a set of strings.
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Joe Burke

 

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Toronto, Canada
Post  Posted 24 Feb 2023 10:16 am    
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I felt like I was all the strings. But I jut switch the middle 2 stings and it’s sounding much better. So I think that was likely it. I’ll start stocking up on extra g strings.
Thanks Greg.
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Rich Arnold

 

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Tennessee, USA
Post  Posted 27 Feb 2023 5:10 pm    
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What Greg said is true.

With electric I can always tweak the eq when they strings start to get dull, to a point, but with acoustic dobro I change strings often. Really often.
Some of the old timers like Josh Graves and Gene Wooten used to use a plain string for the 3rd at around .020 guage so they didn't have to worry about the winding coming off or becoming deformed. Old school.
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