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Old 02-26-2012, 07:06 PM
Matt Mustapick Matt Mustapick is offline
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Those strings will be a little tight...tighter than those on a regular guitar. If you put these strings on a normal 25.5" guitar then the string tension would be the same. This is obvious when you consider that the 2nd string on a regular guitar is a .016 and it's tuned to B. Every instruments different so I can't speak to what's appropriate for yours. In general you might consider using these first and see if the tension is plenty for you...
http://www.juststrings.com/jps-3210.html
Having experimented with this quite a bit (though only on my own instruments), my strong personal opinion is that using the lightest string that gets the job done for you will result in the "best" tone...best for me anyway. If a lighter gauge than these Pearse's can work for you, than go lighter. My 2 cents.
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