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Changing strings
Posted: 17 Sep 2007 6:36 pm
by Don Ricketson
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!!
Posted: 18 Sep 2007 3:12 am
by c c johnson
sure do,Don. Ugh!
Posted: 18 Sep 2007 2:18 pm
by Bill Ford
Yes, and for my D12, they were about $18 per set.
BF
Posted: 20 Sep 2007 7:58 pm
by Willis Vanderberg
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
Posted: 21 Sep 2007 1:26 am
by Tony Prior
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...
Posted: 21 Sep 2007 4:09 am
by Willis Vanderberg
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
Posted: 22 Sep 2007 6:06 pm
by Jim Kennedy
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.
Posted: 25 Sep 2007 7:31 am
by Wayne Douglas
the drugstore and Black Diamond strings,didn't know there was any other kind.
Posted: 28 Sep 2007 9:59 am
by Bobbe Seymour
What are matched sets?
Is it something like "Sliced bread"?
Posted: 29 Sep 2007 5:58 am
by Wayne Douglas
I dunno Bobbe,dosen't it have something to do with tennis?
Wayne