Guitar strings

Lesson learned.

Buy extra sets of strings when you go to the store.

 

I have a few "5-packs" that are missing the B string.

 

I suspect that most of us have at least one or two sets like that.

 

I always have extra. Just buy a 5 or 10 pack of Musicians Gear strings from MF.

 

Lesson learned?
When you get down to your last pack or two...time to get more

 

Heh. Yeah.

I’ve got a plastic bucket full of the remains. Anyone need like twenty 42s? :-/

EDIT: It occurs to me just now that I should make friends with a Djent player. S/he can take the low extras and I’ll take the high.

 

That reminds me of when I was a kid growing up in the early '60s. My Sears acoustic abomination had a broken high E string. At the time the closest music store that I knew of that carried strings was 25 miles away and we only went there about once a month. So I waited and when we went I bought a single high E string.

My dad said, "Shouldn't you buy another in case this one breaks?"

I said, "Nope, I will be careful."

So of course after we got home I put the string on ... tuned it up ... and yes, it broke.

However, I somehow found out that, of all places, a local card shop carried individual Black Diamond strings. The shop was only about three blocks away so I got my strings there.

So, yes, always have a spare. Actually a spare for your spare.

 

I have nylon string acoustic guitars, steel string electric guitars, steel string acoustic guitars, even a bass! Except for the bass (has anyone ever broken a bass string?) I have multiple sets of spares for each type.

 

I saw a bassist break a string at a bar gig, and his buddy changed the string while the bassist was still playing the instrument. I think the band was doing a cover of Cream's version of Crossroads.

I have broken 4 D strings on my nylon guitar in the past 6 months. Just the D string. I currently have 2 sets of strings lying around with no D string. Something must be wrong with the nut or bridge.

 

My 5 sting pack collection far exceeds my guitar collection...

 

Does anybody remember when Gretsch string packages came with spares for the high E and B strings? (1965 or so)

 

Wind them very carefully and slowly as not to over-tighten them. Its a newbie error, you learned a valuable lesson just now, it may never happen again Grasshopper.

 

Last time I broke a string while playing was in 1960-61 when I was 13-14 years old.
Only ones since then were a couple that broke during string changes at the wraps on the ball end before I got them up to pitch. Both from the same 10 pack. Had to have been a bad batch. Both happened the same day on two different guitars. Manufacturer replaced both sets.

 

The only string I ever break is the high E, and even rarely that one. It's usually when I put new pickups in a guitar and try to use the same set of strings instead of putting a new set on. So, whenever I buy strings online, I also get a 10 pack of Daddario 9s

 

Buy some “singles” of the high “E” or whatever you happen to break most often.Most shops carry singles for that reason.

 

i feel your pain, I just did this whit my acoustic and had to wait the a few days for the store to be open. it sucks but it happens to us all

 

After a similar miss-hap to the op re-stringing back years ago, I soon learned not to cut off the old strings just unwind. Then if you bust a new one, you have a fair chance of re-using the old string to get by short term.