The g on my acoustic is flatwound. The set I am using is Thomastik Plectrum .12. The .11 set has the E, D, A, and G flatwound. Very interesting. I haven't played the .11s but I'd be curious to see how they sounded. Theses are my favorite acoustic strings. I don't know how Thomastik does it but I love how low the tension/floppiness is on the strings. Less stress on the acoustic itself.
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle 
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Posted on Oct 27 2007 01:45 PM
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 1054 Chicago IL.
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Posted on Oct 27 2007 02:00 PM
Flats on an acoustic? First the locking tuners on a Jaguar and now this!! "as he stepped into the stealthy night air... little did he know the fire escape was not there" https://www.facebook.com/reluctantaquanauts/ |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Oct 27 2007 02:04 PM
Ha! I had no idea until I looked into buying more sets because I knew those were on my acoustic. I'm actually shocked at how nice and bright the flatwound g sounds. I'm glad the e, a, and d are roundwound though. And these strings don't taste so bad, compared to other strings I've played. |
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Posted on Oct 27 2007 02:29 PM
I used Thomastiks when Id just started out on guitar, some special low tension set supposedly designed for guitars without a trussrod, on recommendation of my guitarteacher. he was very much into picking and blues, yet all his students started out (obviously) on nylon string guitars, so after a while he'd reccomend these thomastiks. are these on your new Martin? —Rules to live by #314: |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Oct 27 2007 03:13 PM
Yep, they are on the Martin. This set really reinforces my love for Thomastiks. When I was looking for Thomastik acoustic strings I only found two different sets. The set I have called Plectrums and some other set. |
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