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I've been using Martin silk & steel the last couple years on my acoustic guitar, and I like them alot. Has anybody tried anything more exotic, like copper or argentine strings or anything? They have some weird-ass strings at http://www.juststrings.com/ that I wouldn't mind hearing; I just wonder if it's worth the bother.

Electric strings all sound exactly the same, I can't tell the difference at all.

― andy --, Friday, 3 June 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I can only tell the difference between really new and really old electric guitar strings.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always saved all the strings I've ever taken off a guitar intact, and I've got a couple cheap Mexican strats that I fit up with fucked up combinations of years-old strings, to have in open tunings. I like having these two like ancient crustoid .10s tuned to C# that get super friggin bendy and will never quite hold tune to each other, giving it this natural phase shifty sound.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 3 June 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody told me that like 90% of all guitar strings are made in two Tennesse factories, and the different companies just contract them and package 'em up differently. I sort of believe it.

― andy --, Friday, 3 June 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If you have strings you like, might as well stick with 'em. I've never found any of the "exotic" gimmicks to make much difference.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 4 June 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the ones in the green package that I steal from other people's guitar cases at practice

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 4 June 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I've often wondered about the Nashville Straight strings that come in a box sort of like uncooked spaghetti. Is it just a packaging gimmick - or what?

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 4 June 2005 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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