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Narrowband.org received a number of hits via Google and Yahoo!. Among the keywords used were “how to restring an acoustic guitar”. You see, I initially imported all my old entries over from the old blog (bulk-import). However, some problems cropped up later so I decided to have them removed. Apparently, before they were removed, search engines had already indexed my site. And because the posts were no longer around, the links were invalid. Therefore I figured that I’d repost them here ;).

[Author’s note: This is a repost dated Oct 23rd, 2006 - taken from my old blog.]

If you’re unsure whether your guitar is classical or acoustic, fret not. Some people do not know the differences simply because they have not been introduced to a different type of guitar before. Generally speaking, all non-electric guitars are acoustic guitars - they include both metal- and nylon-strung guitars. But by convention, we usually use ‘classical’ when referring specifically to nylon-strung guitars. Otherwise, the term ‘acoustic’ refers to metal-strung, non-electric guitars. My classical guitar needs new strings.
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[Author’s note: This is a repost dated Oct 16th, 2006 - taken from my old blog.]

Ok, this is for noobs. It’s gonna be done on J’s guitar. It is a decent Fender, pretty trustworthy. We used it for most of our practices back when we were in school. The high-E string was broken when I borrowed it. Maybe it was left untouched for too long. Or maybe it was a case of mishandling. Anyway, the rest of the strings were in bad shape too so I figured that I’d have all of them replaced.
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