Question for guitarists

ok - so I was in a pawn shop yesterday (yeah, I know, but occassionally you can find something good for a reasonable price if the pawn shop owner doesn't know what he has),
and they had this Dean Espana there.  what I found interesting, tho, was that it had 3 strings nylon and 3 strings were steel.  the EAD strings were nylon and the GBe strings were steel.
 
what is the purpose of doing that?

The Navy trains porpoises for all kinds of silly things.  Some, obviously, learn more useful tricks than others.  Nipper, one of the Navy's more spectacular porpoise failures, was known for restringing instruments in an unusual fashion.  He was dishonorably discharged after stringing the Admiral's Uke - Bass with dental floss. 

I'm guessing that he was the porpoise.

Yeah what probably happened is someone pawned a classical guitar that was missing 3 strings and they didn't have any nylon strings so they stuck some steel ones on it!

mike_mccue

e.g. Some companies actually coat the strings in waterproof goober snot and charge extra for it. 

Is that what caused the rust on all those strings Miggy was seeing?

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

Beagle

I guess really the answer is simple:  Mooch Bapu. 

Is Am Am Is

How did it sound?

Bill - weird. 

thanks guys.  that means that even if I talked to the pawn shop owner and told him what an idiotic thing it is to do that and that he should sell it for a lot less now because of being an idiot, that I wouldn't want it anyway because it might have already stressed the neck too much!

Are you sure they were steel?  Most classicals have the EAD strings wrapped in a fine steel, but a silk core.  They look pretty much like regular steel strings.

I think classical guitar strings are referred to as Bass= EAD and Treble =GBE
The treble strings come in different tensions and clear or rectified nylon.
The bass strings are usually made of bronze wire or silver plated copper wire
around a core of fine threads.
Tension is something the player can decide. Buy three sets or so of different
tensions by the same manufacturer and check them out. Then rinse and repeat.
Carbon fiber trebles are smaller and brighter but tensions are comparable to nylons.
Bronze bass will probably go dead before the silver plated.

Well that about tapped me out....have a Cordoba but seldom play it. Sure enjoy it
though. It's made for the electric guitarist- narrow neck.

Your right I think Beagle....somebody had a brain fart.

the entire strings were either steel or steel wound like mark suggested, not just a ball end.