My LEAST favorite String!!!!

[onewilyfool]

I really don't like the high "e" string....I LOVE the low "E" string, but the high "e" string often sounds "jangly to me, somewhat out of balance with the rest of the strings. I've often thought of putting a little piece of rubber under the string at the saddle, SOMETHIN to subdue it? Does this string bother any of you, and have you found any solutions to toning this little guy down???

[Dave F]

My least favorite is the B string. Seems that all my guitars with the compensated saddle should not be compensated and visa versa and none of them are interchangable.

[E-minor7]

How about a wooden pin and a piece of duct-tape or other isolating material under the saddle, but only there, for a start -

[L5Larry]

My old friend Mel Bay once told me, "kid, you only need the middle four strings on a guitar anyway."

 

Mel's "main" instrument was actually the (4-string) tenor banjo.

[Danner]

G string is my least favorite because it's hardest to tune. It likes to slip past the perfect tuning.

[stein]

Interesting concept. Shoulda been a poll.

 

If I have to choose, I'm gonna go with the G string. Reason being, you can never really choose between plain or wound. If you go plain, it can be kinda bright and you give away a lot of sweetness that way. If you go wound, it's usually the first string to go because windings are smaller and weaker, and tuning gets all funky, and it ends up the whole set gets replaced before it's time.

 

But then again, it might be the best string, because it's the one easiest to play, it's the best one as far as finger position for feel, and has more options because there are two string higher and 3 lower. It's also the one that gets the most finger time, and knows all the fingers the best, spending more time with all 4 fingers than any other string.

 

But then again, by it's very nature and position, it's small windings compared to the other wound strings causes more intonation issues, and it's the most likely to be out from the others, AND it doesn't do this going back and forth from wound or plain well at all.

[BluesKing777]

On my standard tuning guitars I like all the strings, but my guitars set aside for bottleneck/slide are causing mental problems with the high E string!

 

I like plain old stock standard Gibson Masterbuilt 12s on my standard tuning normal average guitars, but depending on the guitar, the slide guitars need a bit wider string on the 1st string.

 

All fine, except I like to play a few bits of slide and a few bits with my fingers ALA R Johnsonish stuff, and a 14/16 on the 1st is about as much fun to give the old blues bend as running through the car wash....

 

Just need to try all the possibilities - the weird thing is that my old 52 LG1 is absolutely brilliant for slide with a 12 on the first string, but the strings are a touch high........at the nut.....

 

All very confusing.

 

 

BluesKing777.

[Salfromchatham]

I like the G-string the least. It is uncomfortable and I prefer the feel of boxers on me anyway. But then again I am not European....

[zombywoof]

I am also a non-lover of B strings. If I am going to break a string this is the one.

 

I have found it suits me best to put together my own sets depending on the guitar. Say something like heavy on the bottom, light mids and medium highs.

[ParlourMan]

I like the G-string the least. It is uncomfortable and I prefer the feel of boxers on me anyway. But then again I am not European....

 

I on the other hand love to pluck a tight G-string, I am European by the way, I'm also frothing at the bit most days... Let's have a wee cuddle....

[onewilyfool]

Well....nipple tassels are more comfortable than g strings.....at least

[DanvillRob]

Back in 1971, my little brother ( who was 16 at the time), said to me, "I really like that new Cat Stevens song, B-String."

 

Took me awhile to twigger that he meant "Peace Train"!

[CAMELEYE]

On the jumbos and dreads I replace the light (gauge string set's) b and e with mediums. Cuts down on the twang and boosts the fundamental. Plus, you can wack 'em harder. Kinda like hitting the snare.

[Scott Naylor]

It helps me to approach fretting the high E string as if there is another string higher on the guitar. I tend to be lazy on that string and fret more like a thumb- wrapped low E than with a good, technically sound inner-string position. Helps with tone and dexterity to boot. Gibsons are capable of such sweet, fat trebles with a little extra care.

[tpbiii]

B strings.

[onewilyfool]

On the jumbos and dreads I replace the light (gauge string set's) b and e with mediums. Cuts down on the twang and boosts the fundamental. Plus, you can wack 'em harder. Kinda like hitting the snare.

Camel, I'm going to try that!!!

[E-minor7]

I got 2 guitars that have given trouble with the G-string.

The 1963 Southern Jumbo and my JoJo 12-fret. Sound, not tuning-wise.

They sound hollow or weak, even a little cheapish.

I use wooden pins and under saddle isolation to compensate.

 

[ParlourMan]

I got 2 guitars that have given trouble with the G-string.

The 1963 Southern Jumbo and my JoJo 12-fret. Sound, not tuning-wise.

They sound hollow or weak, even a little cheapish.

I use wooden pins and under saddle isolation to compensate.

 

 

Or you could try strings with a wound G-string....

[E-minor7]

Or you could try strings with a wound G-string....

What exactly is meant here, sir ?

[ParlourMan]

What exactly is meant here, sir ?

 

Some string sets have wound G's, some don't, you could try a set with a G-strings that is opposite of what you're unhappy with at the minute.