One of the great things about my job is getting to talk to a range of guitar players who have different playing styles and strengths that I do. I always keep my ear open to cool tips about guitar. I've long been an advocate of changing your bridge pins. From $99 specials to boutique pieces I've heard it with my own ears. In order of popularity,the most popular upgrades in my shop are Tusq (a man made ivory substitute from the folks at GraphTech),ebony,bone and for the folks with big wallets,woolly mammoth ivory.Recently a customer who had tried all of these in his beloved Martin HD-35 said he was surprised to find that his biggest improvement was with water buffalo horn! I have made a few guitar nuts with water buffalo horn and they were cool,but I must admit,as a bridge pin material,they were under my radar. Mainly I thought of it as an alternative for the "it's gotta be black" customer who wanted something more exotic than graphite. It could be it's lack of visual "hotrodding" that puts it at the bottom of the gotta try it list;water buffalo horn polishes so beautifully it ends up looking like black plastic! If you're not hip to improving the sound of your acoustic guitar by changing the material of your bridge pins,go to your local guitar shop and give it a try. Change one pin at a time and give it a listen.
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