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Which strings are likely to break?
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Per Boysen
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Joined: Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:05 am Posts: 2268 Location: Stockholm/Sweden
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Re: Which strings are likely to break?
I've never broken a string during my current three years of outdoors playing every day for four months a year - and now and then in studio recordings for the rest of the year.
BUT... many times string #7, the lowest and fattest one, has broken up at the tuning peg. When that happens I use to tie it together again - or rather tie a short part of a slightly thinner string at the top, to be fastened into the tuning peg.
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WerkSpace
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Joined: Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:19 pm Posts: 1731 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Re: Which strings are likely to break?
I use an orchestral tuner and have never broken a string.
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greg
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Joined: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:07 pm Posts: 7088 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Re: Which strings are likely to break?
TRUE STORY
About 3 months after I bought my first Stick, in 1985, I was tuning up and tuned too high and broke the 1st string.
Now I hadn't been using that string very much, and found I wanted to play in the low range of the melody more any way, so I decided to try a little experiment... I moved the remaining melody strings on position to the outside and added a low melody string a 4th down at position #5. I had to tie an extension onto the new string because it wouldn't reach the tuning machine and it was probably a little too skinny, but I liked the results.
Anyone who has spent any time with me knows, I try to be a "lemonade maker", always turning crises into opportunities..
This tuning eventually became known as the Baritone Melody tuning. Emmett developed a full Baritone tuning which lowered the melody by a 4th and raised the bass up a step.
So sometimes breaking a string isn't the worst thing that can happen.
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