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| ...is a PITA, especially when tuning up you pick the A natural string and turn the A octave button.
It goes twaaaaaaaaaaaaang.
And the strings are Thomastik and they use flatwound bronze for the octaves, roundwounds for the naturals. I've just emailed Austria begging for help.
Whatever the strings were that the factory put on the Ute12 didn't last very long. They sounded great when it arrived but deadened up in a couple of weeks.
Now I'm going back to playing my 11 string guitar. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Picturing that 11 string in your hands and I'm having a hard time crying for you, man... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Send it over and I'll do it for you. I'm sure there will be other volunteers, too. |
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Location: NJ | The USA'll bail you out . . . . . a-gain . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | ... but this time we're bringing our own food. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Tupperware:
... but this time we're bringing our own food. And Beer,(Ice Cold). :D |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Flat wound octaves and round regulars. Now that sounds interesting.
Changing strings on any 12 string is a pain it the @ss. |
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| Thomastik are a law unto themselves - they make some truly weird and wonderful strings. I use them on my ute and on my Country Artist - both variations on the John Pearse low mass, low tension sets. The steels are chrome polished flatwound over nylon and the nylons are an all wound set. The steels are 10-38 and the nylons 16-39 (sixteen to thirty-nine).
Over here they are very expensive but they last forever and I don't play anything else anymore. The eleven strings on the ute12 sound spectacular - they are 10-41. |
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Restringing a 12 string slothead....
