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Beginner's Guide to Strings Understanding instrument strings can be a challenge for beginners. Terms like Light, Medium and Heavy or numbers like 12-53 can leave you very confused. We've put together this small guide to help you navigate the lingo. We'll use Guitar Strings for the bulk of this guide, but we'll cover other common instruments towards the end. As always, if you have any questions shoot us an email to sales@strings.ie, we'll be delighted to help you.  Guitars One of the m …

Welcome back La Bella Strings...La Bella Strings has returned to the Strings.ie range. Our first shipment has arrived and includes the popular 2001 Classical Guitar Strings and their Elite range with gold/black nylon trebles. For Trad players we have a set designed specifically for Irish Bouzouki, an unusual Silver Plated Mandolin String as well as Phosphor Mandolin Strings that include a light and heavy gauge outside the ranges of most other brands. For Banjo players we've a unique Silver Plate …

Introducing Deadtone Guitar StringsFollowing on from the world's first Graphene Guitar Strings, Strings.ie is excited to announce another innovative product for string players. With so much hype around bright strings with longer tone life, Deadtone strings are the complete opposite, strings that sound dead! We headed over to speak with April Thurst, head of Strings.ie product development to see the reasoning behind this product.April, what's your thinking behind this rather unusua …

We're pleased to announce we now offer Free Shipping for Ireland on all orders. This includes the north and south. We've changed shipping options for Ireland to the following:Free ShippingFree for all orders in Ireland. We will dispatch your order in 2-4 days via An Post Standard service.Priority DispatchIf you want to jump the queue, for €0.99 we'll dispatch your order first. Usually same day for orders received by 12pm or next working day via An Post Standard service.Express PostThis is An Pos …

Gift Certificates for MusiciansYou may not know this but we have an automated Gift Certificate product at Strings.ie.The way it works is you fill out the form, pay for it and then an email containing the certificate code is automatically emailed to your recipient. You are asked to provide a recipient's email address and to choose a theme such as Christmas, Birthday, etc. The theme is just the flavour of the email that is sent to the recipient. The email they receive contains the g …