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All Plain Strings
Posted: 2 Jan 2003 1:57 am
by DroopyPawn
I'm interested in a set of strings for my dobro but with all plain strings. No wound ones. Any chance I could find something like that? I just want to try it out.
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Posted: 2 Jan 2003 6:28 am
by Larry Bell
I don't think you're gonna find an unwound string much bigger than 026. In most reso sets the four lowest strings are 026 or larger.
What is the objective? Why unwound strings?
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Posted: 2 Jan 2003 6:57 am
by DroopyPawn
I just want to hear how it sounds.
gs
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Posted: 2 Jan 2003 8:56 am
by Donny Hinson
You could possibly get music wire large enough to make your own set...but as Larry said, "Why bother". It <u>wouldn't</u> sound as good, it would play a lot "stiffer" on the low strings, and as the flexibility and string tensions would be higher on those big strings, read---unbalanced, you would stand a good chance damaging your Dobro (neck, nut, or cone). Bad idea, really.
Distinguish yourself by playing well, and not by just by "sounding different".
my2cents.
Posted: 2 Jan 2003 10:35 am
by Pete Burak
Speaking of plain strings, I know of one local lap steel player that uses the same guage plain strings for all of his unwound strings on a 6 string lap steel.
The guy has a slant-o-matic touch and sounds great!
Posted: 2 Jan 2003 11:19 am
by b0b
Moved to 'No Peddlers' section
