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Old 04-05-2010, 03:55 PM
Opa John Opa John is offline
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I can remember once, when I was in the Army, I had an old Jumbo Kay arch top acoustic and needed new strings. All our PX had at the time were flat wound strings.......so, I bought a set of them and put 'em on that old Kay. Since that Kay sounded off like a cannon anyway, the flat wounds didn't really sound all that bad to my ears. Pretty sure I left them on until they were completely worn out. They were definitely quiet......no string "squeek" at all. Not badl, really. But, that was back in the 60s and I really didn't know the difference anyway. Don't think I'd do it today.
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