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Coated vs uncoated guitar strings: What’s the difference?

Unsure whether coated or uncoated strings are right for you and your guitar? We unpick the difference in sound, feel, tuning, price and more When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Magnetic Floating Strings Guitar : Tuning, Stability, and Design

Magnets keep strings suspended without anchor points, and pushing a magnet piece bends notes, so you get expressive sounds with simple moves.
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Believe in Music and Better Sound with SonoTone Premium Strings

Allston, MA, January 22, 2021 — Since the brand’s 2020 NAMM Show debut in Anaheim, SonoTone has grown a legion of followers among professional and amateur musicians, vintage instruments collectors, ...
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“There’s something about the sound of those old strings on that old guitar, it’s special”: Wait, what!? Feeder’s Grant Nicholas has not changed the strings on his ...

How fresh do you like your strings? On his '59 Jazzmaster, Grant Nicholas likes 'em deader than dead for that “real woody organic sound,” and it is his secret weapon in the studio When you purchase ...
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Classical guitar setup – get the most out of your nylon-string

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GIT509 How to set up a classical guitar. Like many players of a certain age, my first guitar was a nylon-string. I don’t think it ...
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Spinning string picker gives Circle Guitar a sound all its own

Anthony Dickens had an idea for a new kind of guitar for more than 10 years, but work on a prototype only started two years ago. Now with the help of engineers from London's Makerversity, the Circle ...
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How Ritchie Blackmore came across an obscure string mod that introduced him to a whole new sound – and why it didn’t work for him

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns Back in the day, guitar players didn’t have the choice of electric ...