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Bob,
Thanks for clearing this up. Did they have round-wounds back then, or as
popular myth goes, just flatwounds?
I was a toddler in the mid 60's...
BN
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> From: Bob Cannistraro [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 4:13 PM
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> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: Live in Japan '65
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> > 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
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> I worked in a music store in the mid 60's.....
>
> Boulder Bob
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