Hmmm… einer meiner Lieblingsgitarristen Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) ist in dieser Hinsicht ein absoluter Brutalo… hier ein Auszug aus einer Artist-Homepage:
[…] To help get his h-u-g-e tone Stevie tuned down a semitone (to Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) and experimented with different string gauges, generally using heavy gauge GHS strings – 0.013, 0.015, 0.019 (unwound), 0.028, 0.038, 0.058. If his fingers weren’t holding up he’d compromise with a 0.012 to 0.058 set although at one point Stevie even strung his guitar with 0.018 to 0.074 (`it was insane,‘ he recalled, `but I played a lot more simply‘) […]