Ruphus -> RE: Strings / Is it aging or what? (Mar. 20 2018 16:04:47)
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Wasn´t it on the foro, when we made clear that strings don´t age, unless worn through playing? I have never had corrosion on my guitars, except of once. With a guy with sopping wet hands of acidy sweat. (That was crazy. Next time you opened the case, strings were corroded.) Other than that, there is only rubbing off (getting black fingertips from the basses). Ah, and there was that eerie incidence, when the Ramirez had been put in a trunk with approximately ~ 90° C or so. Naturally, that or maybe some hundred thousands of years of lying around can lead to molecular re-arranging in the Nylon and corresponding uneveness in diameter, hence intonation in the bin. My hearing ... Well, you never really know. But so far it appears as if it was still in good condition. I can hear through the windows how my dogs move around in the yard, also guard a bit about the strays outside (all the time intervening, when shady folks approach them or try to attack), I detect noise others can only hear when they focus on it, and as mentioned can tune with partials that a strobe will stand still. It actually appears as if I could be hearing freakingly well, inspite of a slight tinnitus on the left , but you got me thinking. OK, just made a listening test online. So, looks as if it is not hearing issue. If you guys say that strings havn´t become worse, then maybe it´s my haptics. But shouldn´t things be the other way round? If all those brands feel slack to me, my hand must have become more rough, more insensible. Innit? But to the opposite. My hands used to be like tools. Daily holding of dental work pieces, hot steel while milling it. Breaking hardwoods, bricks and stones with fists and such (knuckles looking like marbles then). Today the hands are pussy. If I´d bang them against a wall, they would for sure break. And unlike decades before, these days fingertips hurt a bit, when playing a longer session. They are definitely more flimsy these days. I´m puzzled.[8D]
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