A beginners guide to strings

[twang46]

Here's some thoughts on strings & sizes aimed at the "new" guitarist but hopefully will appeal to all.

Beginners guide strings.pdf (124.38 KB)

Dick.

[twang46]

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[sixchannel]

Dick
My PDF reader doesn't recognise the file type. What is it please?
Ian

[Rockin' Teddy]

Hi Ian

It's in PDF Format, I've just tested it in Adobe Reader Version 11 also Adobe Acrobat 9.0 - works fine for me

[twang46]

Mar 14, 2014 18:59:06 GMT sixchannel said:

Dick
My PDF reader doesn't recognise the file type. What is it please?
Ian

Hi Ian

If your still having problems with the reader I can email any of them to you if you msg me your email address

Cheers

Dick.

[sixchannel]

Hi Dick
I've PMd you
Ian

[Clive A]

Hi Dick,

Yet another excellent 'Guide To Strings'.

Can you tell us the difference between round and oval strings?

Rgds - Clive

[twang46]

Mar 27, 2014 17:04:53 GMT Clive A said:

Hi Dick,

Yet another excellent 'Guide To Strings'.

Can you tell us the difference between round and oval strings?

Rgds - Clive

Done

Cheers

Dick.

[Recycled Rock Chick]

Hey Dick you didn't answer the old question in your very informative guide. Its the answer to a lot of things when I ask them, like how long will it take me to learn to play this damn tune.
The answer is usually "How long is a piece of string ?"

So go on Dick, tell me please "How long is a piece of string ?"

[twang46]

Mar 28, 2014 22:41:46 GMT Recycled Rock Chick said:

Hey Dick you didn't answer the old question in your very informative guide. Its the answer to a lot of things when I ask them, like how long will it take me to learn to play this damn tune.
The answer is usually "How long is a piece of string ?"

So go on Dick, tell me please "How long is a piece of string ?"

OK Sandra

The formula to determine the length of a piece of string was unknowingly stumbled on by Georg Ohm (of ohms law fame)

A good (modern) definition of Ohms law includes these parameters....." if, a conductor suspended in free space of negligible cross sectional area & infinitesimal length is subjected to an electro motive pressure of one volt the current generated by the resistance of this conductor" etc...etc...
However Georg being a German did his first trial run of his proposed theory using a length of wet string (it was raining at the time) and as luck would have it he tied one end of the wet string to the same type of metal railings that the Frenchman Georges Leclanche carried on the work of Luigi Galvani who had his frogs legs tied up on a fence in the rain & noticed them "twitching" however he failed to realise the potential & Leclanche is accepted to have made the first single cell battery.

Extrapolating from the above the length of a piece of string can be determined by the formula rain x metal x wet string x the distance to Georg Ohm's workshop door. the resulting length is of course a variable.

Interestingly the first battery is thought to have been used by the ancient Parthians around 2000bc evidence of battery remains were found during a dig beside Baghdad in 1936 for a new railway all the component parts were found jars/copper sheets/iron rods & pitch sealed tops for the jars, later tests showed that when filled with something like vinegar these would have produced around 1.5v. It is thought they were used for an early form of electro-plating Gold onto metals like Silver

Cheers

Dick.....

ps.......................coming soon Beginners guide to strings part II.

[Recycled Rock Chick]

But Dick, we stopped having conductors on the buses back in around the 1970s and when I was at school we were moving past Ohm's law and crossing over Wheatstone's bridge before starting to get galvanised into string theory and getting all excited in our Faraday cages by listening to the sounds coming from our Van de Graaff generators. Then when we climbed up some Jacob's ladders we used to be really shocked when we saw Tesla playing with his coils and flashing his Joules at us

I must get to bed now Dick so I will resistance the continuity of this diode-tribe while I still have the capacitance to get upstairs before I choke

[twang46]

Mar 29, 2014 2:55:53 GMT Recycled Rock Chick said:

But Dick, we stopped having conductors on the buses back in around the 1970s and when I was at school we were moving past Ohm's law and crossing over Wheatstone's bridge before starting to get galvanised into string theory and getting all excited in our Faraday cages by listening to the sounds coming from our Van de Graaff generators. Then when we climbed up some Jacob's ladders we used to be really shocked when we saw Tesla playing with his coils and flashing his Joules at us

I must get to bed now Dick so I will resistance the continuity of this diode-tribe while I still have the capacitance to get upstairs before I choke

[Recycled Rock Chick]

I forgot to add that I have been currently alternating between trying to learn how to play Apache or Albatross but I will be rectifying this shortly and will potentially be taking a more positive stance and not be as negative, so I will without any further impedance be more direct