What guitars do you string with Monels?
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I have a recording king parlor that I never liked too much until I tried nickel strings. Now it's my most played guitar. Really suits bues, ragtime styles.
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I used Martin FX lights until about a year ago when the only thing my local shop had was monel. Grudgingly, I bought them and put them on. Now, they are all I use. I think Martin calls them Retro's??
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Ha! I also have a ‘07 000-18 GE and love them on it too! Scott |
I put the D'Addario Nickel Bronze on a Taylor 314CE and in open tunings it is like nothing I have ever heard before! Right now it is in Open C# (DADADD down 1/2)
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”What guitars do you string with Monels?”
None. Tried them on all four (five if you include the OM-28 Marquis I sold), killed all four (five) stone dead, straight out of the packet. Lifeless, dull-sounding, horrible. Gave them a week, no improvement, so off they came. Fortunately, PB is the Elixir of Life to a guitar - all successfully resuscitated by the re-installation of PBs of their preferred brands and gauges. The usual disclaimers apply......TME, IMHO, YMMV etc. |
Today I took off the Retro Monels Lights from my Martin 000-15M, they stayed on this guitar for 3 years and 3 months, I did not play it every day, sometimes once a week, sometimes twice a week, sometimes once per two weeks.
They still sounded excellent except for intonation was slightly off, but I got warm rich velvety sound -- I took them off just to try 80/20 bronze on this guitar, I only used PB and Monels before. I cleaned the fretboard with 'lemon oil', it took about 10 minutes to clean, the rags after cleaning were black from Monels oxidation. I cleaned and cleaned until the rags were at least grey. |
They sound great on both my 000 sized guitars, but I tend to shy away from bright/plinky/thin/trebley sounding strings.
If you prefer a lot of highs/treble in your sound you might have a totally different opinion. |
I bought Monels specifically for my Collings, to see if I could keep the vintage tone with a little less brightness. And it worked. Those strings sound great on Collings guitars.
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Generally, I like Monels on my mahogany topped guitars but not on spruce topped guitars. Not really sure why.
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I really do not think that we have covered that before here on the forum but I have to confess that I did not do a proper search. Best, Jayne |
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It does not happen on 000-15M, I love the Monels on it. |
All of my resonators and archtops both pure acoustic and electric.
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I tried Monels once, and based on that experience, I would put these strings in pretty much any guitar, as long as it's a guitar I don't own... :D
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