onewilyfool Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 When did steel strings replace gut strings as guitars developed, got larger and louder???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Wasn't someone giving you a hard time last week about approaching 2000 posts? As Homer Simpson says, "they have the Internet now on the computer" (not just the Gibson forum site :0 ! So I found this on CF Martin's work which briefly mentions steel strings coming in to use in the early 1900's: http://www.guitar-maker.com/Pages/histSSG.html and this slightly more technical article for those of us who are worried about "pitch distortion & inharmonicity" (<- I think I had that last night) : http://www.cumpiano.com/Home/Articles/Articles/stringmaking.htm Thanks for making us learn something : 0 ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 ps- that second link mentions first experiments in steel (& other metals) stringmaking in 12 th century Paris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 1880s-90s http://www.19thcenturyguitar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81&Itemid=75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted May 31, 2010 Author Share Posted May 31, 2010 Great articles......good info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambler Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 A routine google. Nothing to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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