[dosland]

I'd vote for something middle-of-the-road like D'Addario's EXP46 Hard Tension strings - hard tension here isn't particularly "harder" than their "normal" tension strings, but I find the sound to be much better - crisper might be the best word this morning. The wound strings with this coating seem to survive much longer than their uncoated counterparts, which for me translates into fewer string changes and less sound quality loss with the passing of weeks (or months...). After she has played those for a while she can get a sense of whether she'd like higher or lower tension strings, or if the d-g transition is too dramatic, and other such minutiae that classical guitar enthusiasts may spend too much time on. That said, in my experience a string change can take a classical guitar from a miserable experience to a really fun one, and it can also do the opposite, as happened to me recently when I went from the factory-standard EXP44 Extra Hard strings to a set of Augustine Blues. This transition left me and the guitar with a severe case of the blues - bit of word play to soften my pathos there - and tubbiness and dullness now abound. If I weren't lazy and a horrible spendthrift, I'd have switched them out on the 2-week mark, once they settled in and continued to not be enjoyable to play. If contrary to fact. But I'll never buy that particular string type again for this particular guitar. Sorry for the long and slightly off-topic ramble, but thanks for letting me vent.