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Old 12-08-2008, 08:15 AM
Wade Hampton Wade Hampton is online now
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Ozsi, I don't have my gypsy jazz guitar YET, but a local builder is making me one. And I've played his previous examples, as well as several built by Shelly Park, a couple of DellArte's, a few Saga Gitanes and one Michael Dunn.

Yeah, they do have a somewhat different feel, both with the strings and especially the scale length. The strings for them are definitely part of that package.

I wish my friend John Pearse was still alive to explain the differences in how those strings are constructed, as he did over the phone to me once. But it seems to me that they're silver coated copper over silk, or something exotic like that.


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