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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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