Jimi played with Fender Rock 'N' Roll light-gauge strings, using a regular E string for a B and sometimes a tenor A string for a little E (.010, .013, .015, .026, .032, .038). Through the very early parts of his career Jimi tuned his strings to the standard tuning of E, A, D, G, B, E, but sometime after June of 1967 he tuned his guitar down half a step to B-flat, A-flat, and so on. This tuning not only made it easier for Jimi to sing but it also made it easier for him to do string bends, which of course was one of Jimi's trademark techniques.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth - Alan W. Watts
He said I play a Fender Stratocaster,with light-gauge strings,
using a regular E string for a B and sometimes a tenor A string
for a little E. To get my kind of sound on the Stratocaster.
I put the strings on slightly higher,so they ring longer.
It seems that Jimi almost always used Fender Rock 'N' Roll light-
gauge strings(.010,.013,.015,.026,.032,.038),although he might
have used Esquier strings a couple of times,as he endorsed their
during late 1968 in some advertisements in American publications.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth - Alan W. Watts
