Product Overview
Features:
- Monel nickel-copper alloy wrap delivers reduced pick attack and warm vintage tone with enhanced natural timbral clarity.
- Medium bluegrass 13–56 gauges provide powerful bass end, loud tone, and excellent resonance.
- Designed to the exact specifications of legendary bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice; quickly mellows to warm vintage tone.
Description: The Martin Retro MTR13 strings are a revival of the legendary Martin Monel strings that bluegrass icon Tony Rice played on his 1935 D-28 until they became unavailable in the 1970s. The proprietary Monel wrap wire is naturally corrosion resistant, ensuring long string life and consistent tone that sounds great both acoustically and plugged in.
These strings capture the beauty of a bygone era, delivering the lush and clear sound many longtime players describe as "broken in right out of the box." The bluegrass-gauge set excels at bringing out the unique woody tones of your acoustic while maintaining full bass presence and vibrant resonance, making them ideal for fingerstyle, bluegrass, and traditional acoustic playing.
