I have been using these strings on my dreadnaughts/3/4 sized guitars for quite awhile now and they give a pretty good useful life and get to the point where they will hold a tune faster than some strings I've used in the past. They will not project as much as a normal gauge string, but there are things like microphones and pickups if you need more volume, and they are not as hard to get bar chords near the nut. Normally I play along with harps, whistles, bouzoukis, violins, cellos with a bodhran and these hold their own really well unplugged.