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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I compared "bulk" string purchases between MusciansFriend.com to StringThis.com.
I selected identical string sets;
4 sets of Acoustic medium gage (13's) Elixers
4 sets of Electric regular Ernie Ball Slinkys
Both delivered by USPS priority.
StringThis.com was $7 cheaper....but they require bulk (4 sets minimum) purchase on selected Brands.
Hope folks add additional resources... |
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Location: closely held secret | Wouldn't it be cheaper to just go to GC, get em at MF's price and not pay the shipping? |
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Location: NJ | Just recently saw in a guitar mag that D'Add now sells BULK packages . . . 25 sets coiled onto a spool inside of a box with the colour coded ball-ends sticking of a port on the top of the box.
I forget what the MSRP was . . . . |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | I've been buying Elixirs on eBay. Three sets, mix & match, are $36-$38, with shipping. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Waskel,
No.
My round trip to the nearest GC is just about 160 miles. Time plus miles doesn't add up. |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, no kidding. Sorry, I forget there isn't one on every corner. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I wish.
Sorta. |
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| Buying strings is like putting gas in the car. You just gotta do it if you want to get anywhere.
The prices quoted by mitch are still way cheaper than the cheapest elixir prices here. Don't know what you see in them myself........ |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Three sets for $36.50 with shipping, Buy It Now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20987&item=7...
I've bought from this seller and he's A-OK. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | hey guys,
I was just doing a price comparison. Not a competition.
Everyone wants good strings. Except, Al.
And the Guitar String Institute measures longevity against the toxic constitution of Templeton. |
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Location: Midland, MI | I bought three sets of LaBella double-end Steinberger S1046 strings from iwantguitars.com (a division of Ed Roman enterprises...someone absolve me of this sin, please) because they were the least expensive around. The site said they would ship USPS, which is cool, because it's only a couple day trip. Guess what...they sent them UPS. Five days to wait. I am not impressed.
Anyway, for my other guitars, I always get the strings at Guitarget or the local mom and pop, depending on how much of a yank I'm in to change them out. |
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| Funny ... I still, in my mid fourties now, buy a few string sets every time I am in a Music Shop. I am not too concerned with the price (unless they are real expensive) and I have changed what I consider my favorite strings so many times it just does not matter what brand I buy anymore?
I have found so many great sounding acoustic guitar strings I am not scared to try any brand now and it's worth a few dollars just to find out anyway.
I must say that I did pay an awful lot for a set of Thomastik Infeld Acousticore Strings for the5 string Bass. But man what a great sound this Elite Bass has now! I will most likely make the effort to find another set when these get old..
Randy |
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Location: Florida | www.webstrings.com |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Randy,
Tell me what strings you don't like. Really. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | What ever happened to Nashville Straights? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by TWA:
What ever happened to Nashville Straights? LOL in about 1988 I went to a local distributor that was stuck with a pallet of those suckers. I have no clue what he did with them because he wanted to sell them for what they were worth in the seventies.
if they were cheap I would have got them. |
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Location: NJ | That's what I'D like t'know . . . .
. . . I used t'LOVE those strings!!
Sounded great and lasted a long time.
The packaging was a bit of a pain in the arse, tho, if you were traveling with multiple sets.
One of the local shops that I deal with still has a package hanging up on the "accessories" peg-hook area . . . with a nice patina of dust on it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by TWA:
What ever happened to Nashville Straights? I heard that they re-located to San Francisco but were not very successful. They really bent over backwards to perform, it seems conditions there were quite different than they expected. Dave |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | What do you guys recommend for nylon strings on my Classic? |
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Location: NJ | Good ones.
(six of 'em.) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thanks for your help. Should some of them be nylon? And could you tell me who's buried in Grant's tomb? |
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| Go to For Sale/Trade and look up a post called "A couple of O classicals" or something similar (it's only a month or less old I would guess). There you will find a short treatise on the subject by the world's leading authority on the subject, a certain mountain-biking member of this fraternity called Professor Fred. All you need to know. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | People seem to rave about Thomastik strings. |
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Location: NJ | I believe at least three of 'em should be . . .
If Grant's family have their way, no one'll be buried there as the building has fallen into disrepair and is predominantly used as a crack-den and public toilet. Grant's descendants want to have his remains moved . . .
Sorry, but I don't (yet) own a nylon string (wish I did) and can't offer any useable info . . . there are many here more well-versed than I on that subject. |
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| Since when did having no knowledge of a subject stop anyone here offering $0.02 worth of opinion? |
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Location: closely held secret | particularly the scatmeister? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Thanks, Schroeder. I remember that thread now. It was a couple days before I bought my Classic, so maybe it didn't sink in. Since I'll be in Italy next week, maybe I'll see if I can get some of the Gallis cheap. |
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| Cheap? Italy?
Good luck.
The best pizzas are in New York or London.
Most of the best Italian is somewhere else. Except the scenery.
Enjoy. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was kidding. I'm not a world traveller, but I have learned that things are usually cheaper at home. Napa Valley wines were first. Cheaper here than at the wineries. Bought a golf club last summer from the distributer. Found out that it was cheaper to have it shipped here than to pay the 8.5% sales tax.
The best one is my sister-in-law who thinks everything European is better. She was in Italy and bought my brother a guitar. Assumed it was better than what she could buy here. It was the first Ibanez I had ever seen. Tag inside still said Made in Japan, just like they do here. |
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| "The best one is my sister-in-law who thinks everything European is better."
She might have a point.
I gotta go to bed. Give my regards to Broadway.
My guitar'd better turn up tomorrow.... |
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Location: Orange County, California | Mark,
Strings by mail
Has the Savarez, Galli and also the Hannabachs. These are all top quality Classical strings, but I really like the Savarez 520P1's. they are all wrapped E to e!! This place charges no tax out of state and flat rate shipping, so you could order a couple of different sets and decide for your self, which is exactly what I'm going to do with the EXP's (supposedly exaclty the same as Adamas strings) the Elixirs. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I just put a good set of Martin mediums on my acoustic that didn't cost me a cent. They were given to me by my son who is over 40, and who I played in bands with for years.
If you want cheap, but good, strings, have four children before you are 25, fed and clothe them and send them to school, buy them cars and instruments and PA systems and mikes and get them gigs as teen agers and play with them in bands as they mature, all the time buying better and better instruments as you get better bands to play in. Flirt with poverty as the bands don't get paid like they should, and SOME DAY, SOME GREAT DAY, your son will walk in and hand you a set of Martin strings and tell you those rusty fence wires you have been babying for 5 years should be changed, if you are going to appear at the Bluegrass festival he is appearing at with his band that you no longer play with but will be asked to jam with if you just change those rusty strings, PLEASE DAD!!
Nothing like free strings. |
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| At the London Guitar Show last month my 9 year-old got given a set of Ernie Ball strings. He walked back to me holding them out. "Thanks", I said, taken aback by the kindness. "Can you put them on my guitar when we get home?" he said.
I guess I've got a few more years to wait for the free ones. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | schroeder
Your time will come and you will deserve your free strings, just make sure when he hands them to you that you say "Can you put them on my guitar when we get home?" |
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Location: Waxahachie, Tx | Bailey, I'll try to remember that,good advice. Might even be lyrics a song in their somewhere. |
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| Only if you're Alan Jackson. :p |
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Location: Texas | Bailey, a little quick math tells me that those "free" strings cost you about $287,000!!! :-) |
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