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As every musician quickly discovers upon embarking on their respective melodic journey, music is quite a mysterious thing. When waxing lyrical, many commentators have likened music to a form of magic and indeed after exposure to legends such as Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, that analogy appears to ring true. Listening to Voodoo Chile or watching The Song Remains the Same, few would dismiss the notion that the musician is akin to magician.Getting the magic from within the musician out into the wide …

We have a new feature at www.strings.ie. Now when we are out of stock of an item, the product page will display an option for you to submit an email address. As soon as the item is available again our system will send out an automated email letting you know the item is back in stock.For the last 4 years we have tried to do this manually which its been a nightmare to manage. This new feature will also help us prioritise our buying. If we can see a lot of people waiting for an item we'll know …

There’s nothing more frustrating for us when a customer complains that the strings we sent them are rusty! The very thought that we have sent out a useless product makes us sick.But the truth is we ship thousands of sets of strings, it's just not possible to check every single set. Sometimes it might be just a bad batch. We source our strings from official distributors so if they had a bad batch then it's likely that all string dealers will be affected. Most of the major string brands tackled th …

We are delighted to announce that our C1 Guitar Capo is now fully compatible with the left handed Guitarist.In an industry first, Strings.ie has developed the world’s first ambidextrous Guitar capo.Head of Strings.ie product development, April Thurst had this to say; “we’ve always felt left handed players have been undervalued in our industry which is crazy considering how many of our stars are lefties. For nearly two years we have been developing the technology to make our C1 Capo availabl …

New Look  If you’re a regular customer of ours you’ve probably noticed some changes with our website recently. Last autumn we gave the site a facelift. We liked the old look but it was getting a little tired and had some technical issues. The new look is a work in progress but we’re getting there. Where have the products gone? In late 2013 we started making some major changes to our product structure and some customers have contacted us asking why their regular strings have disap …