If you don't give me my hat I will blow your brains out - Stack Lee Shelton told Billy Lyons, eyewitness George McFaro's account in Stagolee Shot Billy, Cecil Brown
Congratulations, this guitar looks wonderful, and as far as I know they sounds equally wonderful. I bought second hand a 12-string Jumbo Stella copy (like Fraulini's Francesca) a few months ago, an unhoped lucky find here in France, and I enjoy a lot this guitar.
Now my main problem is to find the strings. In the shops here, gauges like .064, .066 or .070 are inexistent, and single strings are very (very !) expensive (a custom set will cost around 30-35 Euros ). I know that Dell Arte and La Bella have strings set for these guitars, but with a double octave on the 6th course, that I don't like very much. So I've ordered a custom set from FQMS.COM who offers a large choice of singles strings (D'Addario). I didn't find another store which offers such a choice, except juststrings.com , but international shipping cost is $35 for any size order. So my question is mainly for those who live in Europe : where do you buy your strings for these guitars ?
Please note that English isn't my mother tongue, so my apologies for the mistakes.
I have asked Todd Cambio the same question about strings and he mentioned La Bella. I have used Newtone's .013 12-string set, but they don't have the .066 bottom string which helps when tuning down to B.
I'm in the process of putting a string set together with LaBella which would be the same strings that I put on my new guitars: course 1: .013/.013 course 2: .017/.017 course 3: .026/.026 course 4: .017/.038 course 5: .022/.048 course 6: .026/.066 I will hopefully have some of these sets in a couple of weeks and I'd like to make them available at a reasonable price. Send me an email if you're interested. My contact info is at my website, www.fraulini.com. Todd
Hi all, I had occasion last week-end when I was in the U.K. to see Phil's Fraulini Angelina, and just wanted to report what a spectacular job Todd did in its construction. It is beautiful both in appearance and sound. I have played some wonderful old Stella 12-strings, including John C.'s and one Nick Perls owned, and this brand new guitar is in a class with the best that I have seen. For a brand new 12-string guitar, it is unrivaled in my experience--I've never seen one that came close to it. It plays very easily, too, though there was not a whole lot I could do, playing right-handed and upside down (Phil is a lefty). It was great to see Phil and other friends from the EBA, and the one-day version of the Stamford Guitar Festival was great fun, too. It was nice to see and hear Nick Katzman after many years, as well as his playing partner, Thomasina Winslow, who sings and plays really well. Australian Jeff Lang closed the evening concert with a set of his original material, played with an interesting personal approach. All best, Johnm