A few months ago I bought my nephew a fifty quid acoustic from Gear4music. I was so impressed with quality of the guitar that I bought the 12 string electro model for myself. 90 quid - and eaily as goodas a yamaha 12 that I had years ago.

Anyway now I've broken one of the strings. Obviously changing all those string will be at besr something that happens every two years or so.

So what in you experience are a set of strings for a 12 string guitar.   That stay in tune-ish AND Don't break.

I seem to remember someone (Leadbelly maybe) used to tune his 12 string guitar down a tone (2 semitones). Does this seem to anyone a good idea. Does it stop you breaking strings and will it stay in tune at this lower tension?