Changing strings

Don Ricketson · Post by **Don Ricketson** » 17 Sep 2007 6:36 pm

Tonight I changed strings on my Mullen D-10 and had it tuned up in about 40 minutes. Does anyone remember the the olden days before we had matched string sets ? Ugh!!

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 18 Sep 2007 3:12 am

sure do,Don. Ugh!

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 18 Sep 2007 2:18 pm

Yes, and for my D12, they were about $18 per set.

BF

Willis Vanderberg · Post by **Willis Vanderberg** » 20 Sep 2007 7:58 pm

I remember when I walked to the drug store and asked for a second string or whatever. I also remember when a great musician and teacher told me . If I wanted my guitar to be right I would have to get a micrometer and mic the strings. I never believed that would ever happen. Then along came gauged strings.
Little did I know.LOL

Old Bud

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 21 Sep 2007 1:26 am

those must have really been olden days, I recall going into the record shop in Westport Ct (The Melody Room) probably around 1960 ,maybe even '59 and buying a set of Black Diamonds for my Stella...

thats when my string buying began...

Willis Vanderberg · Post by **Willis Vanderberg** » 21 Sep 2007 4:09 am

Hey tony:
I missed you in St.Louis, too busy to hunt you up I guess. But it was in the mid forties when I was buying strings at the drug store. they had violin and mandolin strings also.No gauges just ask for a first or second or what ever position you need a string for.
Have a good un.

Bud

Jim Kennedy · Post by **Jim Kennedy** » 22 Sep 2007 6:06 pm

My grandfather sold strings for guitar, violin and mandolin in his Rexall Drugstore in Moweauqa Illinois. He died in 1968. I used to make home deliveries for the shut-ins, at no charge.

Wayne Douglas · Post by **Wayne Douglas** » 25 Sep 2007 7:31 am

the drugstore and Black Diamond strings,didn't know there was any other kind.

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 28 Sep 2007 9:59 am

What are matched sets?

Is it something like "Sliced bread"?

Wayne Douglas · Post by **Wayne Douglas** » 29 Sep 2007 5:58 am

I dunno Bobbe,dosen't it have something to do with tennis?
Wayne