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Topic: C6: unwound 5th string (G)? Ever try it? |
David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 5 May 2004 8:44 am |
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| Has anyone ever done this for added slitheryness? I can get .024's and .026's. I drop my G a half step on a pedal and a whole step on a knee. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 6 May 2004 8:36 pm
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| Bump ~ anybody? |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 7 May 2004 9:19 am
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| I tune a step higher to D6th, and I still use a wound 5th string! |
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Wayne Cox
From:
Chatham, Louisiana, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 14 May 2004 4:09 pm
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DAVID, I use an .022p for the fifth string (G) note;not because I'm crazy about the sound,but because I find it much easier to lower with pedal#5. As for tone,it kind of goes "thunk" on the 12th fret but i live with it anyway! If the string manufacturers would start making a better wound .024 I would switch immediately. Most .024W strings have a core which is much too small; the end result is a small wound string which buzzes. This is annoying,but what are the alternatives, BUZZ or THUNK ? If the string companies would increase the core size by .02,what a beautiful world it would be!
~~W.C.~~ |
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