I have been itching, really itching for the steel string sound. I almost bought a tenor guitar yesterday, story for another time. Fortunately my South Coast HML-CM strings arrived yesterday and I strung up one of my tenors. These Classic Metal strings are mind blowing to say the least. Dirk really is a genius to be able to pull this off.
If you are not familiar with these strings they ARE made for ukuleles and all 4 strings ARE metal in low G tuning. The G, C & E strings are wound, the A string is steel. To give you an idea of how hard this must have been to pull off consider the diameters
G - .023
C - .018
E - . 013
A - .010
The sound is very nicely balanced with a deep enough bass and great sparkle from the treble A string. They are on the firm side to fret, a little higher tension than most low G tenor sets that might be considered high tension. I like a high tension string so they are ok for me. It is not so much the actual tension because forming chords seems easy. Metal strings will let you know immediately if your technique is sloppy, you guitar players know what I am talking about.
It is the over all sound that just has me captivated, that steel string acoustic guitar chime that reminds me of so much great folk music from the 60s. Who says you can never go home again.
If you are not familiar with these strings they ARE made for ukuleles and all 4 strings ARE metal in low G tuning. The G, C & E strings are wound, the A string is steel. To give you an idea of how hard this must have been to pull off consider the diameters
G - .023
C - .018
E - . 013
A - .010
The sound is very nicely balanced with a deep enough bass and great sparkle from the treble A string. They are on the firm side to fret, a little higher tension than most low G tenor sets that might be considered high tension. I like a high tension string so they are ok for me. It is not so much the actual tension because forming chords seems easy. Metal strings will let you know immediately if your technique is sloppy, you guitar players know what I am talking about.
It is the over all sound that just has me captivated, that steel string acoustic guitar chime that reminds me of so much great folk music from the 60s. Who says you can never go home again.
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