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From TanglyStrings on 7/6/2012 4:10:20 AM

Hi Guys,

I have been inactive for a while. But I thought I'd get back into things. I went to one of my local music shops here in Brisbane, where I have purchased strings before, to find that they did not have the brand I wanted, in fact had no 5 string bluegrass banjo strings at all!

"We haven't been stocking lot of strings for folk instruments," said the young man behind the counter. Folk instruments?!? How insulting.

I eventually found a set of D'Addario mediums at the store down the road. They stock them all the time, so that's good to know!

My Deering Sierra now has new strings and is sounding sweet as ever!

6 Comments
	the grey picker says: 7/6/2012 4:58:00 AM Welcome back! I have spent years searching for the magic string - coated or uncoated, silver or bronze, flat wound or round - and have decided to give up the search. My guitars, mandocello, Vega Whyte Lady and Deering Sierra are all wearing D'Addarios from now on. Might not be able to pronounce them, but you can always find D'Addarios and they are always pretty cheap. Above all, they sound fine are as relaible as anything else out there. And you are right - they sound pretty sweet on the Sierra!
	dcb says: 7/14/2012 5:46:54 AM D'Addario mediums probably like everyone else. You just keep switching strings till you find one that sounds pretty good. I started out looking at what the pro's were using and its pretty much who is endorsing them. The one thing I have learned is that with the right set up and a good bridge and about all the strings are pretty much the same. and then you fall across the ones you like best. Dave
TanglyStrings says: 7/16/2012 3:08:53 AM I wouldn't be surprised to find that a lot of them were made in the same factory and just given different brand names! I had a set before that last D'Addarios, a brand I had never heard of and meant to keep the packet as I rather liked them. But now can't find the packet or remember the name. One of those I know it if I saw it! A guys name. Shrug. I know they were made in America.
	the grey picker says: 7/17/2012 12:07:45 AM "One of those I know it if I saw it! A guys name. Shrug. I know they were made in America." Was it Kel Kroydon, Bill Keith, Earl Scruggs, Dean Markley, John Pearse or Ernie Ball?
	darlo says: 7/22/2012 6:32:52 AM is it complete inexperience i think so but the beuty of being a beginner go with whats on special offer so far have had daddario,eagle musics own came with the banjo and just got a dozen packs of ghs lights worked out about 2.50 pounds a pack wich is cheap from what ive seen the last ones had shipped from america to uk
	MrBoyette says: 8/18/2012 6:38:03 PM Tangly is correct. There's only two factories in the U.S. that actually make strings. Everything you buy is made in one or the other. Daddario stings are the same strings as Ernie Ball strings except for the gauge and coatings and windings. You can even get your own "brand" of strings with your picture on the packet if you have enough money, and you can claim them "These strings are the best" and in fact they are identical to the other 35 different brands on the shelf. And you don't even have to have a factory or even a place of business other than your garage. It takes tens of millions of dollars to be able to take raw steel wire and make it into a string that has constant properties. You couldn't afford all that selling $6 per-pack strings. The math just doesn't work. So they are all made in one of two factories and they'll stick whatever label on them you want for the right fee. I once worked at a plant in Clinton, NC. We received rolls of sheet steel on railroad cars that weighted up to 6,000 pounds apiece. The sheet was fed thru cutters, shapers, dies, molds, and all kinds of other machines and out came oil filters at the other end. The filter caps were painted, the paper shoved inside, the ring inserted, and then it was crimped to finally make a complete oil filter. Then the thing was painted. One color for Fram, one color for STP, one color for this brand, one color for that brand, and then they were packaged and shipped to the customer. Don't believe the BS about "this oil filter is better than Fram, or better than STP, or better than any other. They are all made on the same machine, from the same steel, with the same paper insert, and packaged up by some overweight guy who chews Red Man tobacco. There's not one bit of difference other than the color of paint the customer wants and the logo printed on them. Same way with strings. Martin banjo string Co. doesn't own any more string making equipment than my grandma does.
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