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18/03/2006 1:51 pm
Has anyone tried to put wound nylon strings on an electric guitar? If so how did it sound?
18/03/2006 2:11 pm
While you might be able to get the strings on, they wouldn't sound like anything. Well, you would hear a bit of sound if your ear was within a foot or so of the strings.
In order for an electric guitar to work properly the pickups have to create an electrical signal that is sent to the amp.
That electrical signal is created by a piece of metal moving thru a magnetic field. The pickups provide the magnetic field, and a coil of wire to collect the electrical signal. The piece of moving metal is the guitar string.
If you make the string of a non-metal then there can be no signal generated, and hence no sound.
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18/03/2006 2:23 pm
It depends on the type of pickups. If you have magnetic pickups, you won't get any sound out of the G, B, and E strings - they're entirely nylon... and you may get a tiny bet of sound out of the wound strings (they're usually wound with silver wire, and silver is alloyed with a tiny bit of nickel, copper and tin, which might have a little magnetic interference.
If you have a piezoelectric pickup - some electrics have one in the bridge - you'll get sound. Those pickups sense vibration, rather than magnetic interference.
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18/03/2006 7:22 pm
Oh, yeah. I forgot about piezo pickups. I didn't expect them on an electric.
I thought they were usually used on accoustics.
Still, I'm curious why pvbrat1 would want to try nylon strings on an electric.
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18/03/2006 7:34 pm
why would anyone want to do that?
even god loves rock-n-roll
18/03/2006 8:05 pm
Has anyone tried to put wound nylon strings on an electric guitar?
Yes http://community.webshots.com/photo/29972756/1046139844034233839BxQyoa #
Is it any good?
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Fender/Thinline_Nylon_String_Tele-1.html
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19/03/2006 11:56 pm
You'd have to buy those nylon strings with ball ends, and have to widen the nut slots a bit too.
20/03/2006 1:21 am
does that really classify as an electric guitar though? i'd have to say it doesnt. it's more a thinline classical guitar. the bridge seems to be classical style. at best, it's like the telecoustics...an electric/acoustic hybrid that's NOT your run of the mill A/E guitar.