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When acoustic became pretty much my main focus, I started trying to get more performance out of my Yamaha dreadnought and the Martin that followed. I must have tried 20 different types of acoustic string, by different makers. Ernie Ball’s Paradigm Phosphor Bronze set (£19.99) impressed on whatever I tried them on. They just seemed to have ‘more’ of everything across the frequency spectrum, going some way to justifying their high price. Later, I also came

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