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The Best Guitar Strings for Fingerstyle Playing: Acoustic and Electric
February 25, 2024
What guitar strings should you use for fingerstyle playing on electric or acoustic? Here's how to find the best strings for fingerpicking.
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Guitar Strings for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know
June 14, 2023
Strings play a key role in the feel and sound of a guitar, and you can’t play a guitar without ...
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Best Guitar Strings for Metal
November 12, 2022
What are the best guitar strings for metal? Whether you're drop-tuning, or playing a 7 string or 8 string, here are our top picks.
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What Are Stainless Steel Bass Strings Good For?
September 21, 2022
At Stringjoy we love to talk about strings, and bass strings are no exception. When it comes to bass strings, ...
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Guitar String Gauges in MM: A Helpful Guide
July 2, 2022
What are Guitar String Gauges in MM? This short guide will help you convert any guitar string gauge you see into millimeters in a flash.
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Phosphor Bronze vs 80/20 Bronze Acoustic Guitar Strings
July 1, 2022
Without question, phosphor bronze and 80/20 bronze are the two most popular acoustic guitar string alloys—but what are the differences between them?
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Wound G String (or Wound 3rd): Is It Right For You?
May 4, 2021
Is a wound G string or a wound 3rd the right move for you and your guitar? We look into the history, usage, advantages and ...
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Can You Use a Plain 4th Guitar String?
February 10, 2021
We see enough people ordering plain 4th strings in custom sets of Stringjoys that we thought we'd try out a plain 4th ourselves.
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Guitar Action: The Complete Guide to String Height & Action Adjustments
October 20, 2020
Setting the perfect guitar action is the key to get your instrument sounding and playing how it should. Here's everything you need to know about ...
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David Gilmour’s Guitar String Gauges
October 9, 2020
For the axe-slinging rockers of the world, guitar string gauges simply can't be overlooked. Cue David Gilmour, guitarist and co-vocalist of Pink Floyd, who – ...
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Top 6 Benefits of Heavy Gauge Guitar Strings
March 12, 2020
Are heavy strings right for you? Maybe. Maybe not. There are always tradeoffs with lighter or heavier guitar string gauges, ...
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How High Can You Tune a Guitar String Before it Breaks?
February 6, 2020
Is Up is the new Drop? Definitely not. But what's wrong with tuning up above the highest E on a guitar? We talk about what ...
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Pure Nickel Guitar Strings vs Nickel Wound Strings
November 14, 2019
It’s shootout time! Pure Nickel vs Nickel Wound or Nickel-Plated Steel Guitar Strings. We had our buddy Jay Leonard J ...
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Why Old Guitar Strings Go Dead
April 4, 2019
Have you ever had a guitar string suddenly sound dull, not intonate properly, or become unable to stay in tune? ...
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Why Do Guitar Strings Lose Intonation as They Age?
March 7, 2019
We’ve all been there. You get a new set of guitar strings installed, get your intonation set perfectly, and then ...
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