roger bayliss wrote:Hank2k wrote:with regards strings i do wonder whether Hanks strings were as old as we all believe. In the book "The Shadows By Themselves" from i think 1960 Hank says he changed his strings often (every week or two) as he was so scared of snapping a string when playing after an incident where it snapped and touched something else mid set and gave him an electric shock.
Yes I would think that when the hits started coming and he had a regular job in a band he had some more cash to start doing string changes more often and it was said Bruce changed his strings for him for studio recording so he had fresh strings on to record. I think when he had the Hofner, he must have been short of money till he got established and I think Cathedral strings were fairly cheap back then.
JimN wrote:George Benson uses his own signature custom set of flatwound Thomastik-Infeld strings.
Check whether you think they're worth it at the asking price:
http://tinyurl.com/hufbsuz
Ridiculous price Jim, but it is always the same when artists put their name to something... the price goes higher. He has a few signature Ibanez guitars too, one is quite expensive but they do others sig models cheaper.
Yes the sounds of flatwounds hitting the frets is different to roundwounds and that was the point I was making when I mentioned setting up my Ibanez Artcore.