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Mother in Law has an old parlour guitar, its about 55 years old. It has two strings on it currently, I wouldn't like to hazard a guess when it was last strung proplerly. Anyway she wants me to put some strings on it. Is it ok to bang steel strings on or would it be better/safer with nylons? Its got a trapeze style tailpiece is movable - presumably for intonating? Cheers dudes
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U need >2 strings?
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Personally - I'd use nylon, but I'm a wuss...
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yeah the two string thing was to indicate that there had been a little tension in the neck up until now.
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Nylon. As they are cheap and won't bend the neck

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yeah I was thinking they were the safest option. I'll get some for her.
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Post by ash »

Indeed, nylon string are the safest option, but not neccesarily the most correct choice. Post a picture of the gat if you can...
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Put some old Strat strings on it mate. nobody will play it.

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I've taken a pic but the missus has the usb camera cable at work with her. Will upload later.
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Photo attached :)
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Very nice. Needs a fret touchup with some oil.

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Post by Bg »

sorry I meant the bridge is moveable in the first post
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Post by ash »

Looks interesting...
Does it have a label inside or a name anywhere?
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nope can't see one anywhere
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Post by TMG 03 »

ash wrote:Looks interesting...
Does it have a label inside or a name anywhere?

yeah martin 0018m, 1906 :wink:

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