Hey Mark and other guitar peeps
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Tell me about changing strings.
How often do you do it? How do you know it's needed?
The boy saw a video saying you should change your strings every X months and now he's concerned (he's never changed them). I told him I'd get the scoop.
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Tell me about changing strings.
How often do you do it? How do you know it's needed?
The boy saw a video saying you should change your strings every X months and now he's concerned (he's never changed them). I told him I'd get the scoop.
@jon-nyc said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
Tell me about changing strings.
How often do you do it? How do you know it's needed?
The boy saw a video saying you should change your strings every X months and now he's concerned (he's never changed them). I told him I'd get the scoop.
If they aren't rusty or bent, meh. The guitar will sound better with newer strings but that's about it.
I change mine about 4 times a year. If you're recording or playing in a band or something, though, I'd imagine it'd be a lot more frequently.
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BTW, what my nephew bought last week...
His is a 1959 model and a bit fancier than that, but it's close. I guess he'll be selling his old Sho-Bud.
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@jon-nyc I have 3 steel string acoustic guitars and one nylon string. It's about a week or two between them in rotation of string changes. The nylon string guitar is done less than the steel strings just due to not playing it as much. I do the nylon string about 4 times a year.
If I had to do them all at once I would go crazy. It's not my favorite thing to do.
And don't even ask about the 12 string I just traded away. I think I changed the strings twice on that during the two years I owned it.
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BTW, what my nephew bought last week...
His is a 1959 model and a bit fancier than that, but it's close. I guess he'll be selling his old Sho-Bud.
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I change my strings every month or two at the very least.
They become "dead sounding" after a few weeks for me.
If you go too long they actually develop corrosion which is not good for anything.
About the same here. I keep plenty of extra .27 gauge wound resonator strings as they tend to die quickly owing to metal finger picks. Common issue with virtually all lap resonator players. Some say an unwound third string is more resilient - but most music shops don’t stock that gauge in unwound. Anything lighter just doesn’t work.
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@Jolly said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
BTW, what my nephew bought last week...
His is a 1959 model and a bit fancier than that, but it's close. I guess he'll be selling his old Sho-Bud.
Sweet! Always wanted to try one.
@mark said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
@Jolly said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
BTW, what my nephew bought last week...
His is a 1959 model and a bit fancier than that, but it's close. I guess he'll be selling his old Sho-Bud.
Sweet! Always wanted to try one.
You're a good guitar player. You could do it and probably do it well.
BTW, if you can't stand money or your day job anymore, steel players are in very high demand. Nephew jokes that if the USDA quits paying him (he's an Ag Economist), he might could make a better living with the steel guitar.
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@mark said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
@Jolly said in Hey Mark and other guitar peeps:
BTW, what my nephew bought last week...
His is a 1959 model and a bit fancier than that, but it's close. I guess he'll be selling his old Sho-Bud.
Sweet! Always wanted to try one.
You're a good guitar player. You could do it and probably do it well.
BTW, if you can't stand money or your day job anymore, steel players are in very high demand. Nephew jokes that if the USDA quits paying him (he's an Ag Economist), he might could make a better living with the steel guitar.
