Subj : Re: Acoustic or Spanish?
To   : Oliver Katigbak
From : Sven Petersen
Date : Sat Nov 18 2000 12:49 pm

Hi Oliver!

GG>> If you put steel strings on a guitar made for nylon strings, you could
GG>> cause severe damage to it.

OK>  I guess the bridge will break, right?

No... the brigde is probably no problem, but one day, the guitar will look like
a U because the string will bend the neck forward a lot. I have done that to my
first accoustic... I didn't know about all that and I have put really strong
steel/bronce strings on it, the neck was bended so much, that the guitar was
hard to play due to the high action (distance between frets and strings) and it
only produce some pretty detuned tones.

Take care
 Sven

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