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comment by JakobVirgil
JakobVirgil  ·  4512 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Concerning the third (G) string of the electric guitar...
I used to use rusty bailing wire on my elecric bass the high iron content made it punchy indeed. But it kept blowing my amp.

now I only play acoustic banjo and 12 and 6 strings. I find that on the guitars I like thin strings play really loose. on the 6-string I use the thin string from a pack of twelves apearently not an uncommon practice for folk and old time country musicians.

on the banjo I have a wound Electric bass G-string and two banjo strings I play with a bow so I am doing everything wrong [t]here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgu5AW9q8pI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wjOW0wVjGc





cgod  ·  4510 days ago  ·  link  ·  
well I don't know if you are doing it wrong but you are doing it strange, carry on with your bowed banjo!