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2. GHS (strings) - Wikipedia

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   GHS Strings is an American string manufacturer based in Battle Creek, Michigan, specializing in electric and acoustic guitar and bass guitar strings. The company was founded on August 1, 1964, [1] and in 1975 was bought by Robert McFee, who is the chairman of the board with son, Russell McFee, [1] as president. The name GHS comes from the ...

3. Twelve-string bass - Wikipedia

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   The first known 12-string bass guitar, the "Hamer Quad," was designed by Jol Dantzig and built in 1977 for Tom Petersson by Hamer Guitars. Petersson's Cheap Trick bandmate Rick Nielsen reports that Petersson first conceived of the instrument in 1973, and worked with Hamer over the next few years refining the design.

4. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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   Guitar (electric guitar, bass guitar) Guitar zither; Harp guitar; Hawaiian guitar; Octofone; Octobass; Pedal steel guitar; Psaltry (Bowed psaltry) Resophonic guitar (Dobro; Delvecchio; Triolian) Steel Guitar (Hawaii) (Lap steel guitar) Strumstick; Taropatch (Tenor ukulele) Tenor violin; Tiple (American tiple) Ukulele (Hawaii) Zither (Concert ...

5. Classical guitar strings - Wikipedia

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   While steel-string acoustic guitar strings and electric guitar strings are made of metal, modern classical guitar strings are made of nylon and nylon wound with wire, which produces a different sound to the metal strings. Classical guitar strings were originally made with animal intestine and silk wound with animal intestine up until World War ...

6. Ernie Ball Inc. - Wikipedia

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   With the guitar-based rock revival of the 1960s, Ball noticed that beginner students were having difficulty playing the bestselling Fender #10 medium gauge strings, [4] particularly in holding down or bending the stiff .028" third ("G") string. At the time, it was common for a set of strings to have a third string that was "wound".

7. D'Addario (manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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   In 2021, D'Addario launched XS Acoustic. Designed for six-string guitar, twelve-string guitar and mandolin, XS offers players maximum life, strength and stability—all without sacrificing tone. XS features a thin film coating (1/10 the thickness of a human hair) that completely protects the wound strings from corrosion, without dampening the tone.