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Again, coated strings help combat this, with many players claiming that their guitar holds its tuning for longer with coated strings. The same can be said for intonation, too - you’re likely going to ...

The folks at the Ernie Ball company, which produces 200,000 strings daily, and has sold over 2 billion of them, has come up with a solution, in what it calls the world's first break-resistant string.

Each guitar takes about 15 feet of steel string, and the factory uses more than 500,000 feet of wire each year, estimates Frank Untermyer, its director of supply-chain management.