Hello!Strings Brands+famous guitarists

[jiko]

Hello!Does anyone know which brand of classical guitar strings John Williams uses??Segovia uses to play with Augustine,D****ssell I think D'Addario...Others??Thanx :)

[NGiorgio]

I seem to remember reading in an interview with JW recently, published in either Acoustic Guitar magazine or Fingerstyle Guitar magazine, where he was asked which strings did he favor. He said that he used D'Addario. Do not remember which tension, but he said that he would polish them lightly before installing, to eliminate some of the squeaks.

[Yuk]

John Williams used D'Addario's Lightly Polished J46 strings for his CD Diablo Suerte (it says so in the booklet) and I believe these are the strings he normally uses.

[marcooo]

hello,
i know that eliot fisk uses agustines

marcooo

[jiko]

hello,
i know that eliot fisk uses agustines

marcooo...Julian Bream??anybody knows??He has a brilliand sound in recordings..

[edwardcav]

I remember hearing once that Bream made his own strings...

Perhaps I dreamt it :?

[rumbamaster]

I wonder if most of the masters use medium or high tension? If JW uses D'Addario J46 then those are high tension. It seems to me that most of the classical guys use high tension and the flamenco guys use medium tension.

[darkrider]

..Julian Bream??anybody knows??He has a brilliand sound in recordings..

Bream uses Augustines too, as he says in the 'Life in Music' DVD. Why anyone uses them is beyond me, to me they always sounded like a fart in wet cement, but maybe I'd just bought cheap ones or something.

D'Addarios J46 are nice, using a set of them at the moment, they seem very good general purpose strings. My favourites have to be Savarez tho, nothing else quite gets that projection and resonance. Except talent maybe :D

[jjoel84]

I agree I also dislike agustine's they take too long to tune up, and I cant understand there weird color system,

[jiko]

..Julian Bream??anybody knows??He has a brilliand sound in recordings..

Bream uses Augustines too, as he says in the 'Life in Music' DVD. Why anyone uses them is beyond me, to me they always sounded like a fart in wet cement, but maybe I'd just bought cheap ones or something.

D'Addarios J46 are nice, using a set of them at the moment, they seem very good general purpose strings. My favourites have to be Savarez tho, nothing else quite gets that projection and resonance. Except talent maybe :D...I saw it in the DVD!Well,it's a matter of personal taste,but lot of virtuosos prefer them.I have used them in the past in my first guitar years many years ago they have mellow sound!!.One reason that great maestros use them is that they(Augutine) are the pioneers of naylon trebles and perhaps great soloists like for example SEgovia,Bream were the first to use them and they prefer them until now(Bream).Actually D'addarios j46 are very good,indeed I recently purchased a set of Savarez Corum-Alliance Hard tension.I'll try them also!!

[sseow]

i have one advertisement here by GSP Strings on classical Guitar magazine n it quoted julian bream as one of the guitarist sing it...
4 tat, i went 2 buy one set of gsp.... the result : so, so ....
i still prefer 2 play with savarex...
seow
singapore

[edwardcav]

i heard somewhere that bream made his own strings for a while there... anyone else heard of this?

[keith]

i heard from a friend of a friend, who read it in the weekly world news that australian guitar players use kangaroo gut strings. and their cases are made from croc's--killed by a knife and then cured on a barbie using fosters beer as the tanning agent.

[Scott]

Angel Romero and Aranjuez

[Rex]

An earlier post mentioned polishing D'addarios before installing them. How is this done? I use D'ads and like them but sometimes generate noise with my right hand. I blame myself for most of the noise but will do whatever will help.

[edwardcav]

tsk tsk tsk

kieth, now what have i told you about this....

[jjoel84]

i heard from a friend of a friend, who read it in the weekly world news that australian guitar players use kangaroo gut strings. and their cases are made from croc's--killed by a knife and then cured on a barbie using fosters beer as the tanning agent.

Actualy us australians dont realy realy drink fosters thats why we export to poor unsuspecting foriengers

[edwardcav]

joel: most of the foster's that those guys drink is acutally brewed in canada, believe it or not!

btw id choose foster's over TOOOOHEYS any day :wink:

[keith]

given what the american beer brewers pawn on us as beer (there are some good ones but the majority....ick!) having a beer such fosters is actually a blessing. makes me wanna say eh at the end of each sentence, eh.

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