cockroach wrote:Surely wrapping paper around the strings where they cross the nut must have deadened the sound and/or affected the tuning? OK, it may have stopped the strings rattling or whining if the nut slots were too big for the strings, but...???
Well, there were no guitar technicians back then, and Hank was only a 19 year old lad!
AND all the 'experts' who have had years of experience and limitless technology try to emulate the '19year old lad ' and fail!