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I hope that was an emergency thing and not a refusal to buy a new set of strings. As Padma would say, "Whatever gets the pig clean!"

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Done it myself back in the day - didn't have much money then.

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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

I hope they didn't cut a new string to the the piece

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I didn't mean to say it, but I meant what I said.
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Steve Smith
"Music is what feelings sound like"

Imagine this guy's shoelaces.

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I read Emerson on the can. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...true...but a consistent reading of Emerson has its uses nevertheless.

StuMusic

This is why we old-timers/hippies would coil the ends of the strings into the little circles which hover over the tuner shafts.

BB King speaks of tying on an end to repair a broken string in one of his many interviews. Sure, the tone quality suffers, but you can keep playing until...

I also used to coil my strings into circles at the tuners as, in my case, when a string broke it was usually above the nut. A simple non slip reef knot with some of that spare length did the trick. Some of my friends used to laugh at me but I found no shame in doing this as money was tight (still is!) and I couldn't afford to buy a new set. Another thing I did was when the strings started to get dull I would carefully take them off, coil them up,and boil in a sauce pan with some vim to get rid of the grease and dirt. You'd be amazed at how bright they sounded when put back on, almost like new!....well for maybe a week or so....

Bill S.

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I still do that. If I break a new string by accident and it's above the nut with enough room I'll tie it off in a square not. Stays in tune for ever once the not is set. I wouldn't do that on a customers guitar of course but for my own, sure why not? As long as there is plenty of life left in the string. I hardly break them these days anyway.