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Starting with electric guitar, we have round-wound, flat-wound, and tape-wound variety. That terminology indicates how strings from 6th to 4th are wounded (and sometimes 3rd also).

Lets take a look at them.

From those nickel-plated steel round-wounds are the most popular. They have the brightest sound from them all and tend to ring the longest (talking about sustain here). If you're playing Rock or Blues, that's your first choice.

Tape-wound or ribbon-wound strings sound much more mellow and have darker quality to their tone, very warm sound. This is your first choice if you're going to play jazz, traditional blues, or rockabilly style of music.

Flat-wounds have the quality to them in between round and tape-wounds. They're made from round-wound strings that are grounded to the approximately half of their size. If you like bright sounding strings but can't stand the finger noise from round-wounds, then flat-wounds are for you. You find them between slide guitarists, some jazz players, and shredders.

All of this varieties are available from D'Addario - the brand that I'm using personally. And no, I don't have endorsement deal with D'Addario. They have like 2,000 guitarists endorse their strings. Ridiculous.

Below are the strings that I use on my guitars -

OGOGO-DAddario-ECG-24  D'Addario Guitar Strings Set, Chromes, Jazz Lite - that is what I'm using on all of my Gibson archtop boxes.

 

 

OGOGO-DAddario-EXL-110  D'Addario EXL110 Regular Light Set Electric Guitar Strings (10-46), Single Set - you'll find those on my Fenders Tele and Stratocasters.

 

OGOGO-DAddario-EJ-46  D'Addario Pro-Arte Strings Set, Polished Hard - all my classical guitars equipped with them.

 

 

OGOGO-DAddario-EJ-16  D'Addario EJ16 Phosphor Bronze Light Acoustic Guitar Strings - the best acoustic guitar strings I ever tried.

 

 

Those above are the good starting point for you to experiment with different brands and types of strings.

Here's is the list of guitarists and the strings they use. Thank you to all of you guys who answered my survey.

Howard Alden - GHS 13-56+80
Gustavo Assis - 10-46

Peter Bernstein - 14-54
13-52, flats
Joe Bonamassa - Dean Markley Nickel Steel 11-52

Del Casher - Strats - .09-.42, acoustic are a gauge or two higher and NEVER uses flat wounds.
Corey Christiansen - Thomastik/INfeld Swing Series w/ 13 and Bebop Series 12 w/ a wound 21 for the 3rd string.

Bruce Forman - 013-52

Frank Gambale - D'Addario Chrome Flatwound 10s

Mitch Holder - Jazz- 12-52, electrics - 11-49 or 9-46

Tony Iommi - La Bella 08-32, 09-42

Sid Jacobs - Thomastik-Infeld bebop 13-53
John Jorgenson - electrics - 10s on Teles, 9s on Strats and Les Pauls, on steel - nickel , on flattops - 12s and 13s phosphor bronze, for gypsy - 10s and 11s.

Steve Khan - Dean Markley SLPs .009-.042
Kerry King (Slayer) - Dunlop

Pat Martino - GHS simi-flatwound - 16-18-26-36-46-56
Doug MacDonald - Thomastik-Infeld - 14-55
Steve Morse (Deep Purple) - Ernie Ball RPS Slinky 10-13-16-26-32-42

Orianthi - Dean Markley Blue Steel 9-42

Keith Richards - Ernie Ball
Omar Rodriguez - Ernie Ball 13-56

Slash - Ernie Ball 11s
Mike Stern  - Fender Original 150 Pure Nickels 11-38
John Stowell - 11-50 or 12-52

Hideaki Tokunaga - 12-52

Stevie Ray Vaughan - 13-56
Carl Verheyen - 009 to .046 on Stratocasters and Teles, but with a .038 A string

Mark Whitfield - hollow body - 13-56, 12-52 on solid body

13-54

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