I'm a beginner. I purchased a used Gibson acoustic electric guitar. What kind of strings should I buy?

Question

Should I buy acoustic strings or electric strings. What is the difference in light and medium weight.

Answer 1

Don't listen to the guy who said boomers...those are electric strings and you should NOT put electric strings on an acoustic electric.

use acoustic strings and try either D'addario, Elixir, or Ernie ball strings, those are top the the line right now. Martin strings are good too. They all run about the same price..except for Elixirs because they last twice as long as the other brands.

the weights (they're actually called guages) are the thickness of the strings. If you're a beginner you should use a extra light to light guage until your fingers build up the calusus otherwise your fingers might start to bleed and that would be bad.

Answer 2

these are very good and it is the number one seller on musicansfriend.com. with an acoustic electric  guitar i like to stick with meduims, mine has meds. for a regular acoustic guitar i think to stick with light. and you would use acoustic strings for a gibson acoustic electric.

Answer 3

GHS Boomers.medium weight

Answer 4

WOW your lucky Gibson makes great acoustics anyway, I would go with either D'addario or why not Gibson. It would make sense to put Gibson strings on a Gibson guitar. But GHS is indeed a good string company I am using them on my Epiphone Les Paul  now and they sound good. GHS is used by a lot of great artists like Santana. Light and medium has to do with the string gauge which is the size of the strings in thickness. as a beginner go with extra light or light. I would test out different strings and see which ones you like best.