Strings

[ericcoleman]

I was reminded of this by a friends post.

Most of you have seen me play. I play hard. I really do.

I almost never break strings. The only time in recent memory where I have has been when I took someone's advice and put Elixer's on my guitar. I broke one in about an hour.

So ... guitar players ... how often do you break strings ???

Comments

String breaking

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

This varies from one guitar to the next. Back when I was playing steel stringed guitars a lot (my Guild D-35 dreadnought acoustic)I broke just an amazing amount, seven strings in one evening once at a Minicon. And in the really early days with my South American classic (which I have now had for 48 years, and I am now reminiscing about 44 to 46 years ago) I almost never changed the strings, especially since there wasn't anyplace in my home town to get them, so every six months or so I'd break one just because it was so old and worn that it had to break. On my electric guitars, though, it's almost never; four or five during my entire life. I did break one on an electric bass once, and now I always take two basses with me to each gig.

Nate