Strings for Tapping instruments

Available qualities

We are happy to provide the students with quality strings.
Daniel has redesigned the gauges in order to provide his students with the best feeling.
They can fit most types of tap guitar.

Please check the distance between the nut and the bridge before any purchase.
Pay attention to the fact that some instruments have a larger scale, with the result that the wounding will stop before the nut.

The usual tap-guitars we fit, like Stick TM, Megatar TM, Warr Guitar TM, Vassilevsky Pagaya have usually a scale of 34″ = 84cm between lower and upper bridges.

Some Chapman Stick tm of the last generation do have a longer scale. In that case, some of our strings will not fit. Read carefully.
Contact-us if you have any doubt.

Our strings have an overall length is 45″ (115 cm).
Winding length (mesured from the ball end, not from the bridge) is 36.5″ (93 cm).

We have also the bass strings (gauge over .060) available with exposed core (7cm) at the ball end.(see plans hereunder)

The normal pack contains 16 to 19 strings. With these you can fit most types of tuning.

If you wish to know more about the various tunings in usage on the tap-guitar please consult http://tapguitar.net/index.php/tunings/

Metal quality: we provide”Mello Tone” Nickel covered, It is sweet to the frets and has a brilliant silver color. ( we do not provide anymore the “Ringing Bell” pure stainless quality,  brilliant sound, more oxydisable,  harder to the frets).

We provide also three different gauges sets: ‘Sweet Fingers‘ which is light, and has  expressiveness in the melody strings. It needs experts fingers, good ears and is specially designed for musicians  who want to render a melody with microtonal adjustments such as bending, blues or Indian classical.  “Medium Fingers” is fairly resistant to the finger’s pressure, though allowing some bending. Specially designed for beginners, or for experimented players who like to play chords.  ‘Power fingers‘ offers a maximal magnetic output, resistant to the fingers, stays on the pitch whatever the pressure,  fits the heavy instruments.

All strings sets are custom-made for us and fit both the crossed hands and the uncrossed hands disposition of strings.