It's just a guitar, play it however you want to play it. You can play any kind of music on it, tune it how you like, use whatever strings you want to. I personally use light strings and tune down a tone on my main archtop. .011 - .050, same string gauges I am told Jim Hall used, good enough for me. I recently saw a picture of Taylor Swift playing a very recent Gibson L5 CES...
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Brian Evans
Around 15 archtops, electrics, resonators, a lap steel, a uke, a mandolin, some I made, some I bought, some kinda showed up and wouldn't leave. Tatamagouche Nova Scotia.
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