because it’s a much smoother feeling string. that factored into the development process? comes into play with the Lifespan 2.0 product.
After we’ve done our proprietary in-house [Mike] We’ve enlisted our C.F. Martin Owners [WM] Are your strings designed primarily with
formulation, once we exacted that, which was Club folks and we’ve sent out endless amounts Martin guitars in mind?
in the works for over two years, the feel is less of surveys on these new strings. Some of them finger drag and it’s just got great playability go through that tactile experience, how it feels, [Mike] I’d love to see our strings all over. As
overall. Aesthetically they look better. They and the reduced finger drag just makes the I said earlier, it’s a frequently asked question
sound better and they feel better. But I think playing experience that much nicer. To me it’s since I’ve become the ‘string guy’ and when
from my standpoint as a guitar player, if I put smoother, even though it’s not a coating, it’s a I’ve worked in the custom shop, and one of the
80/20 or the 92/8 Phosphor Bronze it’s in the treatment. So you’re still going to feel the actual first questions people ask is, “Can these strings
tonality. I don’t feel a big difference between the string. From a sonic stand point, we’ve done a be put on other guitars?”
two. lot of sound testing with that as well to find how
[WM] You’ve mentioned finger drag. How has
we get the best sounding string coupled with We tried all of the other leading brands over
the best playing string. That smoothness really the course of a long history, way before I
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