Re: Nylon Strings

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:08:25 +1000, Stephen Calder <calder9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

pltrgyst wrote:

You can't put nylon strings on a guitar designed
for steel strings.

Of course you can. I've done it many times.

Maybe you did but it didn't work.

Define "work." They're there, they make sound, and they sound fine to me and
others. I call that "working." Maybe you mean something more specific that I'm
not sensitive to.

The only one I have around now is an older, originally steel string Ovation that
has had nylon on it for about ten years, with no evident problems.

Maybe a professional musician or a luthier with a very critical ear would find
something he didn't like in the sound contour, but they seem to *work* just
fine.

The only reason I can think of that you might say they wouldn't "work" is the
matter of the relative amount of physical movement of the two types of strings
and fret clearance, but I've never encountered a problem in 45 years or so of
twaddling.

-- Fred

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