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

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

Hardly ever. Of course, I do have a light touch. But I found my string breakage, when I did have it, was usually due to sharp edges on tuners. I used to break strings on the Yamaha. A luthier fixed it and it hasn't broken a string since.

fwiw, I play mostly John Pearse 80/20 lights on acoustics, and GHS Nickel Rockers on electrics.