1976 D'Addario inside story on great guitar strings

If you had to make a better string for your guitar, how would you do it? Here's how the D'Addario family does it. The best way to give a string longer life and stronger tone is to use a hexagonal core wire. Not sometimes. Always. The edges of a hexagonal core grasp the wrap wire firmly, to keep it from slipping. This gives you a more uniform string, all along its length - for stronger response, better harmonics and overtones - longer life.

That's just one quality that makes D'Addario strings better. Another factor is "strand annealing." Simply, that means we temper the wrap wire a foot at a time under precise control. It gives you more consistency and better dependability than treating wire in batches like others do. And where it matters, we guide the winding wire by hand.

Not everybody makes strings this carefully. But the D'Addario family has been making strings for eight generations. With our name on the package, we can't afford anything less than the best quality. We even give you a choice of brass or bronze windings in four gauges for acoustic guitar...nine different gauges for electric guitar...strings from banjo to dulcimer. Ask for D'Addario - knowing how we make strings should change the way you buy them.

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1978 D'Addario Brass: the most brilliant idea in guitar strings

When John D'Addario began making special temper brass guitar strings in the 1950's, a lot of purists snickered. Brass was something used for cannons, buttons or architectural trim. Even propellers. but not strings. That's changed. Guitarists soon discovered that D'Addario brass strings produced pure, brilliant tones, with excellent sustain and balance. and that the special tempering process gave them superior flexibility. Today they're an industry standard...

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1983 Iron Maiden - Steve Harris, Dave Murray & Adrian Smith

Cover: Iron Maiden founder / bassist Steve Harris and guitarists Dave Murray (with Stratocaster) and Adrian Smith (with Dean sunburst).

Contents: Iron Maiden; Guitar at USC; Boris Lebedinsky; Ray Flacke; Tim May; Marcus Miller; D'Addario Foundation; Andres Segovia part 2; Rory Block; more

1983 November Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1979 D'Addario Half Rounds Guitar Strings - They're easy.

Easy on your fingers. Easy on you frets. Easy on your sound.

That's because of the way they're made...from the finest materials for long string life...honed and hand buffed to super smooth exteriors...to create surprisingly flexible guitar and bass strings that are easy on your fingers...professional strings that never wear frets before their times...strings that produce crisp, clear well-defined sound and precise intonation...always.

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1976 Elvin Bishop - Good Time Guitar

Cover: Elvin Bishop - Good Time Guitar

Contents: Elvin Bishop - Good Time Guitar; Bola Sete; Otis Rush; John Abercrombie; Tim Schmit; Slide Guitar Tunings; Musing with Glen Campbell; Luthiers of the Philippines; The D'addarios - eight generations of string makers; more

1976 February Guitar Player Magazine Back-Issue available at www.GuitarPulp.com

1990 Lord of the Strings - D'Addario guitar strings "movie poster" Rated XL

Lord of the Strings

J. D'Addario & Company presents: D'Addario Strings featuring: XL Nickel wound, Phosphor Bronze, XLS Stainless Steel, Pro-Arte, Chromes produced by State of the art Machinery, music by: The World's greatest rock, jazz, country & classical stars

Rated: XL

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