D'Addario EXL117 Nickel Wound Medium Top/Extra-Heavy Bottom 11-56

D'Addario EXL117 Nickel Wound Medium Top/Extra-Heavy Bottom 11-56 are an extreme hybrid set of electric guitar strings, optimally designed for tuning guitars down a whole step to D, while maintaining a comfortable playing tension like that of a "light" gauge set.

XL Nickel Wound, D'Addario's most popular electric guitar strings, are precision wound with nickelplated steel onto a carefully drawn, hexagonally shaped, high carbon steel core. The result, strings with long lasting, distinctive bright tone and excellent intonation, is ideal for the widest variety of guitars and musical styles. This set is optimised for D tuning. D'Addario EXL117 Nickel Wound Medium Top/Extra-Heavy Bottom come in environmentally friendly packaging and have colour-coded ball-ends for easy reference.