Guitar Strings Gone Bad

littlefriend · Unread post by **littlefriend** » Sun May 15, 2005 9:28 pm

topgun17 wrote:also with your old strings incase you break one and you dont want to get a new pack becuz like you break it maybe 2days after you put the new ones on keep the oldies and you can boil them and it will clean them somewhat

Punctuation is good. English doesn't hurt, either.

417roylat · Unread post by **417roylat** » Sun May 15, 2005 11:48 pm

Most performers change their strings every night. Dave does. Strings should be changed frequently depending upon how much you play, and how much your hands sweat. I change mine every 7-10 days.

Jay · Unread post by **Jay** » Mon May 16, 2005 2:39 am

one of my guitars has like year old strings on it $

guitardmb · Unread post by **guitardmb** » Mon May 16, 2005 7:13 am

Jay wrote:one of my guitars has like year old strings on it $

It must sound like crap.

I once played a classical guitar with 20 year old strings on it. I was surprised I got it tuned without breaking them. I changed them later.

Duffman · Unread post by **Duffman** » Mon May 16, 2005 9:07 am

417roylat wrote:Most performers change their strings every night. Dave does. Strings should be changed frequently depending upon how much you play, and how much your hands sweat. I change mine every 7-10 days.

every night? when i put new strings on, it takes a few days for them to stay in tune. the strings have to stretch out, and that takes time.

Elliottman · Unread post by **Elliottman** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:23 pm

Im really suprised at this response. I had no idea you should change you're strings so often. Ive had my new guitar for like 5 months now and only changed 2 strings due to them snapping. Wow, what a revelation!

But i hate changing strings! Doh

mrjones · Unread post by **mrjones** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:10 pm

yeah i didnt know you were suppose to change strings to often either. i had an guitar for a year and only changed one string. then i got a new guitar, when back to old one, and realized how bad those strings were. but i suck at restringing guitars.

guitardmb · Unread post by **guitardmb** » Tue May 17, 2005 7:28 pm

mrjones wrote:yeah i didnt know you were suppose to change strings to often either. i had an guitar for a year and only changed one string. then i got a new guitar, when back to old one, and realized how bad those strings were. but i suck at restringing guitars.

Yea I dont think I change them right. But I do it all the time.

HCHaikuWarrior · Unread post by **HCHaikuWarrior** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:56 pm

i change strings once every 1.5-2 weeks, might be time to change yours eh?

HCHaikuWarrior · Unread post by **HCHaikuWarrior** » Tue May 17, 2005 9:57 pm

Duffman wrote:
417roylat wrote:Most performers change their strings every night. Dave does. Strings should be changed frequently depending upon how much you play, and how much your hands sweat. I change mine every 7-10 days.
every night? when i put new strings on, it takes a few days for them to stay in tune. the strings have to stretch out, and that takes time.

yea they def do it everynight...first of all they want to minimize breakage, second of all new strings sound the best, third of all dave can afford it if he doesn't get em for free! lucky guy.

Usaj88 · Unread post by **Usaj88** » Wed May 18, 2005 1:02 am

littlefriend420 wrote:
topgun17 wrote:also with your old strings incase you break one and you dont want to get a new pack becuz like you break it maybe 2days after you put the new ones on keep the oldies and you can boil them and it will clean them somewhat

Punctuation is good. English doesn't hurt, either.

Haha, amen! :lol:

And to add to everyone else, I also suck at changing strings and usually ask if the person where I'm buying strings will just do it for me.. I'm looking forward to trying out these 'Elixir Nanowebs' many speak highly of this weekend, I've tried Martins and D'addarios in the past..

littlefriend · Unread post by **littlefriend** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:13 am

Hmm. Changing strings is pretty easy, and I actually enjoy doing it. It's very Zen, just me and the guitar. I like to clean and polish everything while I'm doing it, get the windings around the peg just right and have everything all nice and shiny and bright to go along with the tone of the new strings. It's quite relaxing and then you get to play with that fresh, crisp sound. I look forward to it every time. But maybe that's just me.

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:19 am

Duffman wrote:
417roylat wrote:Most performers change their strings every night. Dave does. Strings should be changed frequently depending upon how much you play, and how much your hands sweat. I change mine every 7-10 days.
every night? when i put new strings on, it takes a few days for them to stay in tune. the strings have to stretch out, and that takes time.

There's a technique (basically just pulling on them from both ends) to expedite that stretching method. Also, I'm sure you've noticed that both Dave and Tim have to retune a lot on stage, and when they don't, it's because Monk is retuning them offstage and they have freshly-tuned guitars when they switch them out.

guitardmb · Unread post by **guitardmb** » Wed May 18, 2005 7:08 am

littlefriend420 wrote:Hmm. Changing strings is pretty easy, and I actually enjoy doing it. It's very Zen, just me and the guitar. I like to clean and polish everything while I'm doing it, get the windings around the peg just right and have everything all nice and shiny and bright to go along with the tone of the new strings. It's quite relaxing and then you get to play with that fresh, crisp sound. I look forward to it every time. But maybe that's just me.

Wheres everybody getting these new smiley things?

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Wed May 18, 2005 1:54 pm

i change no more than once a year unless i break one and dont have a spare... then i change the whole set

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