Guitar Strings
April 1st, 2010 | Author: guitarman
Guitar strings can be seen as the heart beat of a guitar. Without strings, there would be impossible to create sound. There are two kinds of guitar strings broadly speaking and they are generally made from:
Steel – used on both the electric and the acoustic guitars and
Nylon – it is used mostly on classical and/or flamenco guitars
Commonly Guitar strings are wound with either a type of metal thread made of brass, nickel, or copper alloy.
As a rule on the electric guitar, the number 1 and 3 strings are usually unwound and number 4 and 6 strings are wound. Individual strings are of a dissimilar thickness, and each of them has its specific note that must be tuned to.
Electric guitar strings are wound by rolling a metal thread around the centrally located string. The type of metal material used around the string depends on the tone and durability wanted by the guitarist. Usually the metal used for electric guitars is nickel and/or nickel alloy. The gauge (thickness) of a string is looked as of light and heavy gauge.
Light Gauge: It is easier to push and bend them without much difficulty. This kind of string allows the guitarist to play faster but lose tune very easily and produce little volume. They are not ideal for low tunings.
Heavy Gauge: These are heavier in thickness and usually the preferred kind for the majority of today’s guitarists; they prefer to tune their guitars down lower than the standard. Unfortunately, guitar strings do break and the reasons are several. Here are some the most common ones.
Too Aggressive Playing: This is a very common reason for broken strings. A deep jam session, you strum a little too firm and the string snaps. There is no an easy fixe for this problem unless you change your style of playing guitar, something it is very hard to recommend to any one.
Over Tuning: Winding the pegs to tune the guitar high could result in broken strings. This is not unusual or difficult to do.
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