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Topic: E string broke first! |
Marc Friedland
From:
Fort Collins, CO
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Posted 2 Sep 2003 12:03 pm |
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About 6 weeks ago I purchased a beautiful new pedal steel from the the wonderful people at Carter Guitars. The new guitar stays at home, and I still use my other Carter for gigs. With so many gigs recently, I've only had limited time to practice at home on my new one, and still haven't had time to set up both of them in the same room and listen to the difference with the relatively new BCT technology. Interestingly enough, the first string to break was the 4th string E and not the 3rd string g#!
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Chris Forbes
From:
Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2003 2:01 am
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| Odder things have happened, I remember once after changing an entire set of strings that the first one to go was the 9th string!!! Now go figure that one, I only have the the half step lower on that so it's not like I was bending the heck out of it!!! |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2003 8:21 am
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Bad Strings>
The metal was fatigued before it even came out of the pack.
Ricky |
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2003 8:32 am
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ditto Ricky Davis.
My Excel has a changer that does not break strings. So why did my first string break? It was defective when it was installed.
carl |
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Chris Forbes
From:
Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 4 Sep 2003 6:27 am
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| Yep, bad strings, who knows how long those things were sitting on someone's shelf before ya bought 'em. Maybe they should have a "born on" date like Budweiser!! |
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Ray Minich
From:
Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 4 Sep 2003 9:08 am
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One of the hard lessons of life I learned was that you can't restring a PSG when it's cold. My studio is in my attic, unheated. In the dead of winter it can be 20-30 degrees up there until I leave the door open and get some heat up there.
Last winter I broke string 3. Before the attic got warm enough (and the guitar got warm enough) I went thru 4 of the .010 strings, each breaking just before coming in tune. I also realized a fella oughta wear safety glasses when restringing 'cause the pieces fly when the string breaks. (Don't tell OSHA or they'll get nosy... Soon all guitar players will have to wear safety glasses...)
Finally after I got the room up to about 50 degrees everything worked OK.
If somebody pulled on you as hard as the 3rd string gets tugged (for it's size) you'd probably not last too long either.
Emmons S-10, Dekley S-10, Supro 6, Nashville 400 |
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 11 Sep 2003 8:44 pm
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I don't know about safety glasses,but ear muffs would be handy at times.They should be a required hand out for Banjo pickers.
Bud |
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