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Light electric steel guitar strings in place of classical nylons ?
Thinking about putting D'Addario EXP110 Coated Nickel Light steel strings, 10-46 on my Cordoba Mini II classical nylon guitar... They are steel strings but their total tension it's the same as Martin Magnifico classical guitar strings and Hannabach SHT... I bought the Cordoba Mini II as a practice/travel guitar but I am mainly a steel strings guitar player... do you think that the above mentioned strings will damage the guitar even if they have an overall tension that is comparable to hard tension classical strings?
Last edited by gerardo1000; 06-29-2019 at 01:25 PM. Reason: update title |
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Get some high tension carbon strings and spend some time getting used to a new feel and sound. In the end, you will like, it's very hard not to.
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In the description of the string pack it states it was designed for folk and concert guitars; nothing about classical. I think no matter how low you go in steel gauge it will still exert greater pressure than any nylon would and eventually your bridge would start to pop up. |
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I've often wondered about this question myself. If anyone tries putting light steel strings on a classical please make a video, I'd be interested to hear the result. I heard somewhere that the composer Agustin Barrios used steel strings on classical guitar with some kind of modded bridge. I'm curious about how that would have worked out.
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If you were to put these on a Nylon guitar, how would you attach them to the bridge?
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If you wanted to put steel strings on a 'classical' guitar the closest you could get is cordoba's limited dreadnaught guitars, they were made with a hyrbid fan bracing strong enough for steel and were ment to be steel strung. However its really not a classical guitar at all haha. You could always have a luthier custom build you a classical with either hybrid fan bracing or just the regular x bracing or some other kind of bracing ment to support the load of steel strings |
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https://www.juststrings.com/toi-kr11...a&kw=toi-kr116
Those light steels mentioned are not for classical. However, the rope core strings are, and they play great. I had them for awhile on my Ramirez until I decided to go back to strictly classical playing.
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I can second this opinion on the rope core strings. Very unique and quite "steel" like.
Also, I have been using these on one of my classicals: https://www.martinguitar.com/1833-sh...um/c-24/p-1335 Sometimes they make me forget I am playing on nylon... |
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Kinda pricey, but made for nylon string guitar to emulate steel strings:
https://www.stringsandbeyond.com/thi...oaAq34EALw_wcB |
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There are several 'classical sets' out there that exceed 100lbs tension, while the set he suggested is only 94.20. Tension is tension is tension. The resulting tone, of course, is another story, but they may well satisfy the OP's idea of aural nirvana. Howard Emerson
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