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Follow-up on guitar strings for an archtop.? I dipped into my piggybank to purchase a set of Thomastik-Infield Swing flat wounds. $24 from Amazon. My last strings purchase was a 3 pack of D'Addario NYXL for $27. But as I said before I didn't like the feel of them, too tight, too stiff.

Thanks to many of you who are Thomastik faithful I have been converted.? I've been playing my George Benson GB-10 for the past 2 hours with the newly installed Thomastik.? They are a delightful set of strings. Amazing the volume and tone dynamics I get just with plectrum pressure.? Light touch has a silky smooth mellow tone.? If I dig in the tone gets bold and ultra-present without being harshly bright.

What a vast improvement over the strings I used in the early 1960's.? Back then when you walked into a respectable family owned musical instrument shop and asked for a set of strings the sales guy would throw down a set of Black Diamonds in the red paper packs.? They felt pre-rusted. Played as? stiff as barbed wire.? The guitar world is a vastly better place today.

Another topic could be the quality of new guitars today versus the now treasured guitars of the 1960's.? In my humble opinion most mid-priced guitars today are vastly better made than the ones made 60 years ago.? A modern Ibanez Artcore AF75 for $400 is a way better made guitar than a Kay or Harmony archtop from 1965.?

Tom Samarati