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Topic: Where do you find you string? |
Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 16 Dec 2011 6:14 pm |
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I wounder where do you buy your strings?
I found greath set of C6 and A6 at juststrings.com but I don't find set of Leon Mcauliffe's E13 or acoustic G6 for my dobro 8 strings. Do you buy single strings? |
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CrowBear Schmitt
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Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
From:
Quebec, Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 9:30 am
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| Thank you but there no Leon Mcauliffe's E13 or acoustic G6 for my dobro 8 strings |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 11:14 am
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Just Strings sells single strings. For the dobro set, just buy a regular G 6 string set and buy the other 2 as singles. You can also make your own E13 set.
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Paul DiMaggio
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Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2011 6:04 pm
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I've built my own sets and bought sets too. Steve's in Montreal has a pretty good selection, including a C6th
pedal set [10 strings], 13 to 70 gauge. You could probably make a E13 set out of that. Most music stores carry an assortment of single strings. b0b does too. |
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Billy Gilbert
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Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2011 5:06 pm G6 strings
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| Beard Guitars sells 8 string G6 sets. |
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Steve Ahola
From:
Concord, California
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Posted 18 Dec 2011 5:44 pm Re: Where do you find you string?
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| Jean-Sebastien Gauthier wrote: |
I wounder where do you buy your strings?
I found greath set of C6 and A6 at juststrings.com but I don't find set of Leon Mcauliffe's E13 or acoustic G6 for my dobro 8 strings. Do you buy single strings? |
For Leon's E13th just can use the JustStrings SIT E7th sets and add a plain .017 or .018 for the 2nd string (the C#). You move the rest of the strings down and you get to choose what you want for the bottom two strings (E&G#, E&B, or G#&B). You do need to tune the .030w string up to F# from E (which is what I do when I use this set for E9th).
http://www.juststrings.com/
The strings are semi-flat nickel wound which a lot of people here like for lap steel but you might want round-wound for Dobro. (Semi-flat strings start out with round windings but the surface is ground flat.) The SIT E7th set is $5.91 but with a flat rate shipping charge of $6.95 to the US and Canada so you probably want to order more than one set of strings. (Their Aroma AT300B clip-on tuner is really nice for $13.96 and the Planet Waves string winder is $6.42- I ordered both of those to pad my order and was pleased with both of them.)
HTH
Steve Ahola
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Jean-Sebastien Gauthier
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Quebec, Canada
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Posted 19 Dec 2011 5:12 pm
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Thanks for the replies.
Steve, good tips for the E13, I always buy guitar strings at justrings.com and I love the Sit steel guitar string so I will make the E13 from the E7 like you said.
For the dobro, thanks Billy, I found the strings their:
http://www.elderly.com/accessories/items/BR80.htm |
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Steve Lipsey
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2011 5:31 pm
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| I just make my E13 set from a normal pedal steel E9.....you get a couple of extra strings but the set is cheaper than making it up by adding extra strings to a smaller set....just use the pedal D# string for the E13 C#....the rest of them work as designed... |
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Steve Ahola
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Concord, California
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Posted 19 Dec 2011 6:52 pm
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| Steve Lipsey wrote: |
| I just make my E13 set from a normal pedal steel E9.....you get a couple of extra strings but the set is cheaper than making it up by adding extra strings to a smaller set....just use the pedal D# string for the E13 C#....the rest of them work as designed... |
Steve: The Leon McAuliffe E13th tuning goes from a low E(~.056) up to a high E(.015). An E9th pedal string set only goes down to B(~.038) so you would have to add .046 and .056 strings for the G# and E. (I believe that you are thinking of the high E13th tuning used by Little Roy Wiggins and traditionally attributed to Don Helms- although Don usually tuned the bottom strings to A and C#.)
Leon's E13 (with approximate gauges):
.015p E
.018p C#
.018p B
.022p G#
.030w F#
.034w D
.046w G#
.056w E
I do buy sets of E9th and C6th pedal steel strings to handle the more unusual tunings. And as a regular guitarist, I keep plenty of plain strings on hand so it is the wound strings that I look for in the sets. (I have no problem mixing and matching plain strings from different mfgs- IMO they are all basically the same although the ball end wrap is more secure on some of them.)
Steve Ahola
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