New Coated Strings from D'Addario

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When youre the best, you dont rush new products to the marketbecause only the best new products will do. Thats why, even when other coated strings were making news, DAddario kept quiet, redesigning and testing their own coated strings, already in development. And the results of that patience are more than worth the wait.

DAddarios new EXP Extended Play Coated Acoustic Guitar Strings are nothing less than amazing. Theyre coated, but they feel, look and sound identical to traditional acoustic guitar strings. The secret to DAddarios success with EXP strings lies in the manufacturing, of course. An ultra-fine layer of EXP coating is applied to the phosphor bronze wrap wire before the wire is wound around the high-carbon steel hex core. Because the wrap wire is coated first, and then wound onto the core wire, the string retains the feel and sound of a regular phosphor bronze string, sounding fresh and bright. The "new string tone" lasts three to four times longer than traditional guitar strings. This is a vast improvement over strings that are wrapped first and then coated, as they tend to feel strange and sound ill.

Hundreds of professional musicians were enlisted to test DAddario EXP strings over the last year, and the strings were unanimously praised as the best new guitar string innovation to hit the market since DAddario introduced the first Phosphor Bronze string in the 1970s.

"Our new EXP Coated strings are simply amazing," says DAddario Brand Manager Peter DAddario. "These strings sound great bright, like traditional phosphor bronze acoustic guitar strings. Their corrosion and tarnish-proof features keep their tone three to four times longer. Everyone who tested them begged us for more sets, and people theyd told about the EXP strings were calling us asking for them, but we only had so many prototypes to go around. Were expecting a very strong response to these strings."

Five sets of EXP Acoustic Guitar strings will be offered initially: EXP15 (extra-light), EXP26 (custom light), EXP16 (light), EXP17(medium) (all retail for $23.99), and EXP38 (12-string, retails for $39.99). Each set matches with the corresponding DAddario EJ acoustic sets (e.g. regular EJ15 = coated EXP15).