Gear Diary Rotosound Announces New 8 String Set For Guitars photo

8-string Ibanez guitar, on which to slap your Rotosound 8 string set (Image courtesy of The Twelfth Fret)

So here’s the thing:  Like any red-blooded American male since the year 1958, I tried to learn how to play a guitar.  And frankly, I stunk at it.  It’s not that I’m unmusical, or am tone-deaf, or anything like that; definitely not, as I learned to play piano instead.  But some combination of the strumming and fingering just totally defeated me.  I tried to play bass guitar, at which I stunk somewhat less partly due to the fewer number of strings, but as I’m a writer now you can imagine that I hardly set the world on fire.  So it only boggles my mind–me, who could barely deal with 4 strings, let alone 6–to think of guitars with 7 and 8 strings.  But apparently they’re becoming more common, which is why folks like Rotosound offer 8 string sets instead of the ordinary 6.

Rotosound’s new 8-string set (R10-8) is part of their ‘Rotos Yellow’ series.  The gauges in this string set are 10, 13,17,30w, 42w, 54w, 64w and 74w (where w means a wound string).  The additional 64w and 74w strings give you tones down to a bottom B and F♯.  (I honestly have very little idea what any of that means, but if you’re a guitar player, I’m sure you do, right?)

Got an 8-string guitar, or thinking of getting one?  Or need a gift for someone who has one?  Maybe this is a product you’ve been looking for.  Surf on over to the Rotosound site and check out what they have and, if you get a set, be sure to let us know what you think below!

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Doug is a nerd from way back, falling for a Commodore PET at the age of 15, and never looking back. Riding the nerd wave, he got a Computer Science degree and entered the tech industry at a young age, deciding after a year and a half of front-line phone technical support that he should try something, *anything* else. He settled on technical writing, and has been cranking out documentation for companies like Unisys, SGI, Cisco, Juniper, and many others ever since. He is nothing short of ecstatic to be working for H-P from his home base in Austin.


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