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Les in Chorlton Tech: Strings for guitars, banjos. mandos etc. (12) Tech: Strings for guitars, banjos. mandos etc. 11 Mar 16

I know this will have been answered somewhere but we do tend to slide of the original request a bit.

Strings for guitars, banjos. mandos etc. have basically five essential properties:

1. Thickness or gauge
2. Length
3. Loop or end toggle
4. Material - Steel? or Nickel?
5. Winding - Bronze or Nickel.

I know this is not exhaustive or entirely accurate but is the list about right?

Second point - Although sold sometimes in sets of 4, 6 or 8 and so on and in ones or twos they are packaged as guitars, banjos. mandos etc. - can I simply fit a string of choice - by length and gauge etc to any instrument as long as it will go on?

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