Depends. If I play a lot, the wound strings get gunked up and dead sounding. If not so much, then the plain strings get lumpy over time. Anywhere from overnight, if I'm gigging acoustic, to a couple of months.
How often do you change strings on your acoustics?
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Some people actually boil their strings in hot water. Don't aske me why though.
Balderdash
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If you have a good recipe, you can make “deviled strings”, but they’re so hard to peel…
Those are actually called "Satan strings."
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So I am admittedly cranky. But every time you bring this up you say you don't know why and I reply because back in the day there were people who believed that boiling the strings made them sound better (than un-boiled) or lasted longer. This is maybe the third or the fourth time "recently". So, do you admit you can't remember things (senile?) and force me to make accommodations or do you admit you ignore me so I can do the same to you without guilt?
If you ask you why and you don't have an answer what do we makes of this? Do I have to send all of my goats into the special Moderator Pen where you can't get them?
I don't believe I have ever posted about boiled strings before...
Balderdash
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Baked? Fried? Sautéed with lots of garlic? Maybe just used as dental floss…?
What, I can't re-visit a topic?
Muckman
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More often than I’d like to! 3-4 weeks if it’s a guitar I’m playing daily, sometimes sooner. I’ve never liked the tone of elixir or othe coated strings I’ve tried. I like the tone of 80/20s, but they are quick to lose their tone. I recently put a set of 80/20 Paradigms on a D40, 3 weeks/20ish hours playing them and they’re still hanging in there……definitely the best treated/coated strings I’ve tried
So on a mission trip to Mexico, I saw that the "church guitar" was missing some strings. I put on a whole new set of strings for them because I knew if I just gave them the strings they would only replace the missing ones and leave the other old nasty ones on the guitar.
I also brought a set of bass strings and found a guy at a shop in town to give them to. He acted like it was the best gift he ever received. I suppose bass strings are hard to come by in Nowheresville, Mexico.
I also brought a set of bass strings and found a guy at a shop in town to give them to. He acted like it was the best gift he ever received. I suppose bass strings are hard to come by in Nowheresville, Mexico.
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You could have just boiled them. People do that, you know. Don't know why.
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I can hear when my guitars need new strings.
I use treated strings, so if I'm not playing one of my guitars very often, I can get 4 to 6 months out of a set of strings.
If it's a guitar that is a daily player, about 2 months is the average before the strings start to sound dead.
I use treated strings, so if I'm not playing one of my guitars very often, I can get 4 to 6 months out of a set of strings.
If it's a guitar that is a daily player, about 2 months is the average before the strings start to sound dead.
