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I've built my first cbg and am useing Ernie Ball Earthwood 80/20 bronze guitar strings 42 gague, 30 gauge and 17 plain string. I can't play it a lick but it sounds nasty. Useing glass slide on the wound strings doesn't give me the pure sound. When I use my glass bottle slide over the 17 gauge plain string I get a second high pitch overtone that sounds like a cat. This note is over and above the normal string sound. Any suggestions beyond learning to play????

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Cool thanks! I'll keep with those. I had bought some 12s for my current, yet unfinished, CBG and will stick with them.

-Wes

Al said:
a reasonably heavy slide always helps for acoustic/cbg but i prefer something lighter for electric. I use 12s on my acoustic and 9s on my electric my quality street lap steel has a 36, a 26 and a 17 tuned either A,E,A or G,D,G

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