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Yes, the first person I heard of doing this was James Burton. He at
least popularized it, and said it was the secret to his sound
on "Suzie-Q"
It's funny how things come back around. Anything below a set of
11's feels too light to me now, but when I first started playing in
the mid 80's, I almost couldn't buy light enough strings. a set of
8's were the way to go.
"Bob Cannistraro" <cannistraro@e...> wrote:
>
> > But they didn't have anything lighther than 11s back then did
they
>
> all you had to do was buy a set of mediums or lights, throw away
the
> low E, put the low A on for the E and work your way up. then we
used
> a 5 string banjo string for the high E. we called this "rigging"
the
> strings - James Burton was one of the first to do this I think
>
> There was a set available with an unwound G - it was the Gretsch
Chet
> Atkins Rhythm n' Blues set - I pretty much used these on my Guild
> Starfire
>
> I worked in a music store in the mid 60's.....
>
> Boulder Bob
