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It was very hard to get anything but big strings...Gibson Sonomatics
and Black Diamond and some Fenders.
Flatwound for the most part. It took years for the companies to "get"
that players wanted thinner strings for bending.
Les
On Monday, September 6, 2004, at 03:34 PM, loscobrassurf wrote:
> ok i get the picture.i have a fender cyclone 2 (mustang body,three
> jagwar pickups,strat trem,and short scale)i'll give it a try.thinking
> about it i do have a fulldrive 2. i use it with just a touch of drive
> and a clean amp it does fatten my sound up alot.we play about 25%
> surf and the rest rock instro so i do alot of bending.the problem
> with going to big strings (besides my tendons)is doing a new nut. all
> the modern guitars come with 9's . just a thought back in the day
> when surf ruled couldn't you only get big strings?
>
> miller
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>
> --- In , "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Supertwang,
>>> I swapped strings to get lighter sets as well. That became
>> especially
>>> important as the 60's moved along and blusier styles took hold.
>>>
>>> Like I said in another post, my palm muting skill (which I
> learned
>> thru
>>> many years of messing about with pedal steel guitar) has served
> me
>> well
>>> in achieving very fast double picking speeds on lighter strings.
>> This
>>> was necessary to do both surf technique and bending on the same
>> guitar.
>>> I also use knuckle blocking for keeping strings under control at
>> those
>>> speeds.
>>
>> That's pretty good that you can do that Les. I agree, alot of tone
>> does come from your hands, but still I cannot imagine some surf
> songs
>> sounding the same on lighter strings. For example Dick
> Dale's "Night
>> Rider" that just sounds right being double picked on heavy strings
>> being forced through a reverb tank. Also alot of Eddie Bertrand
>> stuff. For example his solos on "Scratch" would sound different
> with
>> lighter strings. As much as you can say that tone comes from ones
>> hands there is something to be said for using heavy strings and
>> hitting them hard, exspecially in the surf genre. I've always
>> thought that the guitarists who I enjoy that use lighter strings
> have
>> a weaker sound than those I listen to who use heavier strings. I
>> love James Burton and his playing was ahead of its time, however,
> his
>> tone wasn't really all that great. But that's just an opinion I
>> guess.
>>
>> Bill Aqua
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