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Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky
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It depends on how you define guitar strings. Sure you can put some guitar strings on a guitar but if you are able to hear what your guitar sounds like after about 2 to 4 weeks they are no longer what they sounded like when you first put them on. Are they still guitar strings at that point? To me, no they are not. Sure they will make noises for as long as you leave them on but your guitar will not be sounding like it can if it had fresh strings - it will sound pretty dead. If you have a halfway decent guitar it is silly not to keep it sounding the best that it can for lack of spending a few dollars and taking a few minutes to replace the strings. If you buy string sets by the dozen they are even cheaper.
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Even if you find some magical cleaner to keep them clean and free of tarnish they won't last forever.
Because the guitar is a fretted instrument, playing fretted notes will necessarily put kinks in the strings. When a string is new the entire string will vibrate uniformly. If you play a 12th fret harmonic it will vibrate in two segments. Eventually, the kinks that get into the strings make different segments vibrate independently. You are able to compensate the pitch with tuning but at some point the string will start to go "false". What that means is that the plucked pitch will be higher than the pitch as it sustains its vibration. This is called a "bell" tone because that's what a bell sounds like when struck due to its shape and the vibration propagating throughout the bell. So at some point even if a string still maintains it's luster and pretty sound qualities it may go false. At that point it won't sound good and is very hard to play since the intonation goes all over the place especially when strumming. |
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Back in the 60s - when I was in High School and College - I played strings until they broke.
I just bought a 1930s Regal resonator guitar. When I opened the case I found a box of Gold Seal strings. |
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Should sound pretty dead and "thunky" by then. There's a reason why you need to change strings, you know...
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Quote:
madhat. |