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- From: ken@advtech.uswest.com (Kenny Chaffin)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Using Acoustic Strings on an electric?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.163444.19312@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:34:44 GMT
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- In article <18NOV199208353258@rosie.uh.edu> math1rb@rosie.uh.edu (92F07486) writes:
- >I am having trouble finding large guage strings for my electric, and
- >have always liked the way bronze acoustic strings held up over time. Are
- >bronze strings not used on electric guitars because they are poor
- >inductors (???) for creating a current in the pick-up's magnetic field?
- > Or does anybody use bronze acoustic strings on their electric?
- > What about some other acoustic strings?
- >
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- Sorry, you can't do it. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin (?) that
- is non-magnetic. Electrics must use steel (or other magnetic metal) strings.
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- KAC
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- Opinions? Can anyone actually _have_ opinions or are they no more
- than dust motes floating in the sunlight of collective intellect.
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- Kenny A. Chaffin {...boulder}!uswat!ken
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