Martin MA130 Authentic Acoustic - SP - Silk & Steel Custom ( 11½-47 ) 41Y18MA130

Wonderful acoustic guitar strings, I have been playing guitar for fifty five years and these strings are the best ever. Buy these I’m sure you will not be disappointed. The tone is fantastic, bright and feel great!

My favourite acoustic strings. Sound really nice and smooth to play.

Great strings, hold their tuning very well. Not recommended for frequent de/retuning as these are very soft and prefer standard tuning. Gorgeous sounds for fingerpicking, very clear and warm - would recommend for harder woods to expose the full range of tones from these strings. Great if you switch and dabble between nylon classical and steel as these are quite malleable and won't dig into your fingers as much.

I bought these in march (it's now late October and the high e has just broke) and they've been great. They have a beautiful, clear, warm sound. They're very durable, I play a mix of fingerstyle and regular, and a lot of the songs I play are very rough on strings, but they survived through everything until now! They're really great on my fingertips too, a lot less painful after playing for hours straight. They hold their tuning really well too and have been fine being tuned up and down too! I'm really impressed and will definitely be getting again :)

Iv used these for years on all my guitars, due to the silk core they are very easy to fret, so if you have delicate vintage instruments, you may want to try these out of if you dont play guitar every day so you dont build up the calouses on your fingertips and you want the string to feel easy under your finger tips these may just be the strings for you however obviously they are not as loud as regular guitar strings, in my opinion they work well on 12 string guitar, i have 12 fret to body 12 string which is quite difficult to play with regular12s on it so i swapped to silk and steel and found it so much easier to play it was like night and day

Always a personal thing, but these were recommended and I find them odd to use. For want of a better word, they are sticky. Your fingers don't glide over them, they seem to catch when picking. Surprised a Martin string doing that, but they will come off soon. They are oddly bright white on the guitar, too. Not for me.

soft and mellow

Some of the best stings i have used. Only problem is that, as with all silk and steel strings, they die quicker than usual steel.

自分の指先にあった固さで、とても弾きやすいですね。

Good

Molto morbide e gentile sulle dita. Suono che assomiglia a quello delle cord di nylon, rispetto a corde simili della D'Addario. Le consiglio per i principianti o ad esempio per i bambini/ragazzi, inutile iniziare con corde dure, falsano la percezione delle proprie capacità all'inizio. Oppure per chi come me suona in casa per se stesso e non ha bisogno né di generare chissà che volume né di avere un suono metallico puro. E non vuole soffrire a suonare corde molto più in tensione che mettono alla prova mano e polpastrelli. Ovviamente, essendo corde a bassa tensione, quasi sicuramente se si proviene da corde regolari si dovrà regolare il truss rod della chitarra acustica un paio di giorni dopo averle montate. Il truss road è un inserto metallico del manico che regola il modo in cui il manico si oppone alla tensione delle corde. Con una chiave a brugola giusta e qualche ricerca su internet è facile e alla portata di tutti.

À la base, j’ai acheté cette guitare 1/4 uniquement pour poncer la table et y peindre un motif personnalisé — un petit projet d’atelier qui devait finir en décoration murale. Le format 1/4 est parfait pour ça : compact, léger, et franchement mignon à exposer. Mais évidemment, le guitariste curieux en moi n’a pas pu résister à l’envie de la faire sonner un peu après avoir fini la personnalisation. Et là… j’ai commis une petite modification de lutherie : je l’ai montée en gaucher 😅 (oui, oui, je suis gaucher, et non, je ne m’excuse pas). Pour pousser le vice, j’ai remplacé les cordes d’origine par un jeu Martin Silk & Steel. J’adore ces cordes sur mes folks et acoustiques : le toucher est ultra doux, presque soyeux (sans mauvais jeu de mots), et la tension modérée convient parfaitement à une petite guitare comme celle-ci. Les cordes filées acier/soie offrent un son rond, clair et équilibré, sans agresser les oreilles ni la table d’harmonie. Techniquement, ces cordes ont : 🎸 Une jauge allant de 0,28 mm (Mi aigu) à 1,50 mm (Mi grave) — parfait pour un jeu souple, même sur un diapason réduit. 🛡️ Un revêtement anti-corrosion, qui prolonge la durée de vie du jeu (très pratique quand la guitare finit plus souvent accrochée au mur qu’en tournée mondiale). 🎶 Un son lumineux et stable, étonnant pour un si petit format. Résultat : ma guitare “d’exposition” s’est transformée en mini guitare jouable au son tout à fait correct ! Et avec les Silk & Steel, elle a ce petit grain feutré qu’on adore pour le fingerpicking ou pour improviser en douce pendant une petite réunion entre amis. Bref : ✅ avec les Martin Silk & Steel, elle chante (presque) comme une grande.

Sehr gute Saiten für meine kleine klassische Wandergitarre. Man kann gut Sliden auf den Saiten und sie haben einen schönen klang. Die würde ich wieder kaufen !!