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Posted: 25 Apr 2003 11:24 am
by Roger Rettig
You guys are all 'closet counters of the third string'.......
RR
(Couldn't that be a movie?)<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Roger Rettig on 25 April 2003 at 08:38 PM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 25 Apr 2003 12:57 pm
by Bobby Lee
Ernest, your third string is thinner than the others!
Posted: 6 Jul 2003 7:18 am
by Larry Miller
I recently bent a string, and it played perfectly.
Posted: 6 Jul 2003 8:00 am
by Mike Perlowin
My 3rd string is too fat. I have to put it on a diet.
Posted: 6 Jul 2003 10:38 am
by Peter
I stopped breaking them as soon as I stopped using the B-pedal.
I feel so Lucky!
Posted: 6 Jul 2003 11:16 pm
by Mike Meese
Where did Shannon ever get to?
Posted: 15 Jul 2003 7:22 am
by John Borchard
I just use a .072 for the third string. You need a tire iron to tune it to G#, but once it's there, it's not going anywhere.
John Borchard<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by John Borchard on 16 July 2003 at 06:05 AM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 2 Nov 2003 11:54 am
by Earnest Bovine
Never mind. I fixed it.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Earnest Bovine on 02 November 2003 at 12:17 PM.]</p></FONT>
Posted: 2 Nov 2003 12:27 pm
by Larry Miller
Doug, please tell us what you did to remedy the situation, so the rest of us don't have to needlessly suffer.
Posted: 2 Nov 2003 12:48 pm
by chas smith
Suffering is important and helps to build character, so in that regard, none of it is needless.
As I've mentioned so many times before, if you stretch the 3rd string and use dental floss to hang cockroaches or dead flies from it, it becomes an entymological form of chi chi balls.
Posted: 2 Nov 2003 1:27 pm
by Mark Herrick
Does it count if I get bent but the 3rd string doesn't?
Posted: 2 Nov 2003 4:51 pm
by chas smith
Only if the bent is a bent over......
Posted: 6 Nov 2003 12:48 am
by John Davis
Earnest, Here in the UK we have an instruction book left by an American service man called Mr,Rednecks guide to tips and tuning for steel guitar (I am fortunate to own a copy) the section 43 deal;s with the third string the advice is 1. Boil the string in goats wee ,then leave to dry at room temperature, I am not sure how this adds to the strengnth of the string but the footnote says Don`t floss with it use a 22wound
Posted: 5 Aug 2006 7:16 am
by Larry Miller
I just put a new 3rd string on, and I have found that when I put it through the hole in the tuning key and turn it....it becomes bent.
Posted: 5 Aug 2006 9:06 am
by Mike Wheeler
Well, maybe you should consult a professional...you could break something!!
Posted: 7 Aug 2006 7:19 pm
by John Groover McDuffie
You could try what I did today - nothing.
I was doing a down-&-dirty session today and the culprit broke halfway through the 2nd to last song. Since we never stop to fix anything anyway I just kept playing. After that song, I asked the producer if he wanted to wait while I changed it, we agreed to just finish the date with the remaining 9.