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For a very long time, over 25 years, I used Guild Special Alloy Brass strings(80/20) after being turned on to them by Yuris at the Blue Guitar Workshop in San Diego.I can kill a set of phosphor-bronze in a day. When Fender took over Guild(see Martin-Gibson's post) these strings became almost impossible to find. I used both medium and lights.

At a Tony Rice workshop he mentioned that he used D'Aquisto Brass masters on his old Martin. I found a good source online,(will leave a blue-clicky thing when I find the URL) and bought a supply in light, medium,and heavy for my 6 and 12 string. Theses are amazing strings.

The heavys(58- 14) allowed my 000 6- string to pound out unamplified over the drums and amplified instruments in my church band. It did take out a toll on my fingers,however.

When I started playing bass in the band, I changed the 6-string to lights in order to save my hands. I can't kill them. They have been on the guitar 2 years and they still ring and ring. so much so that I want them to die a little to take the edge off.

Now mind you, this 6-string had absolutely dead strings on it the day I bought it and when I dropped it into an open D tuning, the sustain and resonance were so outstanding, even with dead strings,that I walked out of the shop with it for $50 down and $50 a month. After the owner had dropped the price from $750 to $500.

That was over 20 years ago and it's still my baby.

rr