Thread: New old archtop
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Old 01-19-2018, 10:32 AM
mr. beaumont mr. beaumont is offline
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You have to play around with acoustic archtops to find the "sweet spot gauge" for strings, I think...good thing in the long run, strings are cheap.

I feel like up to a certain heaviness, you get this increase in volume, everything...and then if you go heavier, you might start to notice no change, just tougher to play...and if you go way too heavy, things start to deaden a bit.

But every guitar is different.
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