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		<title>By: Don</title>
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		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ian - good question!
Yes, according to Taylor Guitars, the GS7 comes factory fitted with &quot;Elixir® Medium Gauge Strings with NANOWEB® Coating&quot;. This means the guitar should have 13 / 56 gauge strings in place.

If you want to go down to 12&#039;s, you have 2 Elixir options:
Light-Medium - 12 / 56 - same 3 bass string gauges as Medium, but lighter top 3 strings, or 
Light - 12 / 53 - all 6 strings are lighter than Medium.

&lt;img src=&quot;http://koolblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ElixirStringGauges.png&quot; alt=&quot;Elixir String Gauges&quot; /&gt;
 
I&#039;ve experimented with different gauge strings on my Taylor 914ce&#039;s and 655 (and other guitars over the years). 

I&#039;ve rarely (never on my 914ce&#039;s) had to make any adjustment to &lt;strong&gt;saddle or nut grooves&lt;/strong&gt;.

I&#039;ve found this impacts 3 things - tone, intonation, and playability. I assume it would be similar for the GS7...

The easiest one to discuss is &lt;strong&gt;tone&lt;/strong&gt;...With lighter strings, the tone is generally, well, lighter! By that I mean a &quot;thinner&quot; high end and loss of bass depth. But the impact is different when you play acoustic vs electro-acoustic. You can compensate for both of these if you play electro.

Whether &lt;strong&gt;intonation&lt;/strong&gt; is an issue for you and your audience depends a bit on your playing style. I found that moving to lighter strings, I was more likely to apply too much left-hand pressure, resulting in sharpened fretted notes, especially on the bass strings. 

Lighter strings take less left hand effort, so generally enhances &lt;strong&gt;playability&lt;/strong&gt;, and makes pulling and pushing much less hard work on an acoustic guitar.  However, with a light top E-string, I found I sometimes slid the string off the edge of the finger board, until I got used to the lighter strings.

The other issue you may find with fitting lighter (therefore looser) strings is increased fret-buzz. Again, depends on your playing style - unlikely to be an issue for finger style use.

Personally, I prefer the light-medium combination - retains the richer bass, avoids left-hand induced intonation problems, but makes it easier to pull/push the treble strings.

I&#039;d suggest leaving any &lt;strong&gt;truss rod adjustment&lt;/strong&gt; until you settle on the gauge you prefer, then adjust, if necessary to optimize action and minimize fretbuzz.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ian &#8211; good question!<br />
Yes, according to Taylor Guitars, the GS7 comes factory fitted with &#8220;Elixir® Medium Gauge Strings with NANOWEB® Coating&#8221;. This means the guitar should have 13 / 56 gauge strings in place.</p>
<p>If you want to go down to 12&#8242;s, you have 2 Elixir options:<br />
Light-Medium &#8211; 12 / 56 &#8211; same 3 bass string gauges as Medium, but lighter top 3 strings, or<br />
Light &#8211; 12 / 53 &#8211; all 6 strings are lighter than Medium.</p>
<p><img src="http://koolblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ElixirStringGauges.png" alt="Elixir String Gauges" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve experimented with different gauge strings on my Taylor 914ce&#8217;s and 655 (and other guitars over the years). </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve rarely (never on my 914ce&#8217;s) had to make any adjustment to <strong>saddle or nut grooves</strong>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve found this impacts 3 things &#8211; tone, intonation, and playability. I assume it would be similar for the GS7&#8230;</p>
<p>The easiest one to discuss is <strong>tone</strong>&#8230;With lighter strings, the tone is generally, well, lighter! By that I mean a &#8220;thinner&#8221; high end and loss of bass depth. But the impact is different when you play acoustic vs electro-acoustic. You can compensate for both of these if you play electro.</p>
<p>Whether <strong>intonation</strong> is an issue for you and your audience depends a bit on your playing style. I found that moving to lighter strings, I was more likely to apply too much left-hand pressure, resulting in sharpened fretted notes, especially on the bass strings. </p>
<p>Lighter strings take less left hand effort, so generally enhances <strong>playability</strong>, and makes pulling and pushing much less hard work on an acoustic guitar.  However, with a light top E-string, I found I sometimes slid the string off the edge of the finger board, until I got used to the lighter strings.</p>
<p>The other issue you may find with fitting lighter (therefore looser) strings is increased fret-buzz. Again, depends on your playing style &#8211; unlikely to be an issue for finger style use.</p>
<p>Personally, I prefer the light-medium combination &#8211; retains the richer bass, avoids left-hand induced intonation problems, but makes it easier to pull/push the treble strings.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d suggest leaving any <strong>truss rod adjustment</strong> until you settle on the gauge you prefer, then adjust, if necessary to optimize action and minimize fretbuzz.</p>
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		<title>By: Ian Kavanagh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ian Kavanagh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a GS7 and I believe it comes with Elixir medium strings(13&#039;s). If I change string gauge, for example from 13&#039;s to 12&#039;s, would I then have to adjust the truss rod? Also, would the grooves in the saddle and nut have to be re-shaped for this string change? Would changing to 12&#039;s adversely affect the tone?

Many thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a GS7 and I believe it comes with Elixir medium strings(13&#8242;s). If I change string gauge, for example from 13&#8242;s to 12&#8242;s, would I then have to adjust the truss rod? Also, would the grooves in the saddle and nut have to be re-shaped for this string change? Would changing to 12&#8242;s adversely affect the tone?</p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Elixer Acoustic Guitar Strings Light</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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