Ernie Ball has released a newly reimagined version of its Earthwood Bell Bronze acoustic strings with a little help from John Mayer. Having worked with the firm for some peculiarly precise ...

Whether or not you agree with the assertion that Mayer plays the strings or the guitar – or both – his signature set runs from 10.5-47 and will be a crowd-pleaser for players in-between gauges.

Again, as with the 7-string model, there are those distinctive Steinberger gearless tuners, which of course lock to enhance tuning stability. The Kaizen six-string is available to order now, priced $3 ...

Ernie Ball, a pioneer maker of rock ‘n’ roll guitar strings used by legions of artists, including the Rolling Stones and Merle Travis, has died. He was 74. Ball died Thursday at his home in ...

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is a longtime user of Ernie Ball strings. In a video shot for the company’s “String Theory” series, he recalled how he’s been using them since he was 18.

Ernie Ball was also the first company to offer individual guitar strings by gauge in stores, meaning that if you bent a note too far and snapped your G string in half (yes, guitars have G strings ...

Ernie Ball, a pioneer maker of rock'n'roll guitar strings used by legions of artists from the Rolling Stones to Merle Travis, died yesterday (Sept. 9) at his home in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He was 74.