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Originally Posted by allthumbs
I was talking to a really good player and told him about the heavy strings I use for tone and stopping the slide from crashing the frets. He said heavy strings are a crutch and don't make much difference to tone either. I have never heard this opinion before. He plays 9s or 10s and uses really thin glass slides. What do you think? |
Good for him if he can get a decent tone and playability out of those skinny little strings. As for the 'crutch' connotation ... I would have thought it was the other way around, that thin strings are the crutch.
To each their own.