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sam_m -> Which String... (Dec. 14 2008 14:26:08)

...don't I have a spare for?

And which string has just snapped?

[:@]



Ricardo -> RE: Which String... (Dec. 14 2008 14:29:51)

The D string??



XXX -> RE: Which String... (Dec. 14 2008 14:43:00)

btw, could it be that the d string is always the shortest? the string that snaps the most is the shortest, so that you can hardly repair it [:-]



sam_m -> RE: Which String... (Dec. 14 2008 14:53:27)

Ricardo wins. [:D]

I'll have to venture into my local musique shoppe tomorrow and see what I can find - it's one of those crusty old places with dusty windows owned by a bloke who looks like a wizard and who hates being disturbed.

I doubt he'll have anything very exotic, so a normal classical 4th string will suffice for now I'm guessing?

The spares that came with the guitar have 'classical' trebles and 'flamenco' basses, but no 4th, alas.



Ailsa -> RE: Which String... (Dec. 14 2008 22:56:59)

I had a set a while ago that came with an extra D string. Can't remember which make. But the point of the story is that you're obviously not alone! For some reason the D is the one that goes.

I'm experimenting with strings at the moment, trying to find the ones which suit my guitar (and my fingers!) best. At the weekend I noticed the strings on my husband's guitar were getting really old - like months old. So I changed them for him - put a nice set of D'Addarios on. He doesn't like them! Says everything is harder to play with new strings on. But maybe he had just adapted his technique to worn strings!



gj Michelob -> RE: Which String... (Dec. 15 2008 0:53:28)

That is such a good point, Alisa:

“adapted his technique to old strings”. Whether it is a new set of the same brand or switching to new shores, I too am a slave of habit and hardly appreciate the change while mostly complaining doubtfully about any new strings.

Don’t we all occasionally read that Ricardo uses Labella, Tomatito Luthiers and Paco Pena D’Addario and we try one set, shortly to be irritating and discarded.

I am currently fixated on D’addario composite normal tension. But when often waiting after a month of the same, change brings a stiffer bass more liable to squeaking and scratching, and it takes me a day to fully admit change was overdue…. and that brilliance is finally restored.



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