string2000's Ultimate Guitar String Snapping Thread!
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GTR37
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No but you can usually feel it in the tension somewhat when tuning up
AlbertA
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Yes, by all means, put your ear next to a string and tune it as high as you can 
Rock Chalk
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OK true story......late last night I felt like jamming a little and grabbed my trusty R0 from the stand, turned on the Axe-Fx, and put on some headphones.
Upon first strum I decided to fire up Axe-Edit and tune the guitar. Now usually, if that guitar needs tuned, it's been sitting a while and is flat about a half step down for the whole guitar, and needs to be brought up to pitch.....well, lol.. I started with the high E, and regardless what note it said on screen, I already had hold of the high E tuning peg and was cranking it up when TING! It popped! Well come to find out, the whole guitar was out above 440, not below! All I know is I was looking for that E on screen, and I wasn't going to find it in the direction I was going!
Now, there could have been some good smoke involved here, but that's for a different thread. lol
There wasn't any other guitars within arms reach at the moment, so I just played without the high E for a while.....
Upon first strum I decided to fire up Axe-Edit and tune the guitar. Now usually, if that guitar needs tuned, it's been sitting a while and is flat about a half step down for the whole guitar, and needs to be brought up to pitch.....well, lol.. I started with the high E, and regardless what note it said on screen, I already had hold of the high E tuning peg and was cranking it up when TING! It popped! Well come to find out, the whole guitar was out above 440, not below! All I know is I was looking for that E on screen, and I wasn't going to find it in the direction I was going!
There wasn't any other guitars within arms reach at the moment, so I just played without the high E for a while.....
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If you had the StringBreakPredictor® app, this never would have happened.
strings2000
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Did you think of me?
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Only when a G string breaks.
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When I was 16 or 17, not long after my father passed, I was in a bad way mentally. But I was getting into guitar. I already had a soundcard (M-Audio Audiophile 24/96, come at me crew!) and a midi keyboard and a ton of I-bought-it-honest-guv software.... but I wanted a guitar.
Here in the UK there's a small trade show called Music Live, I think it is even still going. So I went, and walked around by myself for a few hours, and came home with a right handed acoustic guitar. Might've been a Washburn. Can't really remember.
So... I have it, in my tiny little shit hole box room that I had as a kid. And I'm trying to tuning it and just experiment with it. Tuned it. Played it. Hurt my fingers. Got angry coz I couldn't play it. Found it so unintuitive and wrong. It literally felt wrong in my hands. Another cycle of tuning it, and a string snapped. Guess I tuned it too far.
I just lost my rag. Absolutely went fucking mental. I properly smashed it up against the wall a few times until it was bits and pieces in my hands. Mum comes up the stairs wondering why I've just smashed up my brand new guitar against the wall. I give her the silent treatment like the sulky asshole teenager I was.
So yeah, anyway a few years later, someone told me that left handed guitars were a thing. It was a revelation. I swear to you, the first time I got a left handed guitar, even though I couldn't play it, it felt natural and comfortable in my hands!!! And it took me a couple of hours to get something going with some basic open chords in E-standard.
Now as a 41 year old man... I'm just glad I didn't do that at a gig. What a rockstar. <facepalm>
Here in the UK there's a small trade show called Music Live, I think it is even still going. So I went, and walked around by myself for a few hours, and came home with a right handed acoustic guitar. Might've been a Washburn. Can't really remember.
So... I have it, in my tiny little shit hole box room that I had as a kid. And I'm trying to tuning it and just experiment with it. Tuned it. Played it. Hurt my fingers. Got angry coz I couldn't play it. Found it so unintuitive and wrong. It literally felt wrong in my hands. Another cycle of tuning it, and a string snapped. Guess I tuned it too far.
I just lost my rag. Absolutely went fucking mental. I properly smashed it up against the wall a few times until it was bits and pieces in my hands. Mum comes up the stairs wondering why I've just smashed up my brand new guitar against the wall. I give her the silent treatment like the sulky asshole teenager I was.
So yeah, anyway a few years later, someone told me that left handed guitars were a thing. It was a revelation. I swear to you, the first time I got a left handed guitar, even though I couldn't play it, it felt natural and comfortable in my hands!!! And it took me a couple of hours to get something going with some basic open chords in E-standard.
Now as a 41 year old man... I'm just glad I didn't do that at a gig. What a rockstar. <facepalm>
Sleezy E
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I'm left handed. It was too hard and expensive to get my hands on a lefty in grade school so I learned right handed and still play that way to this day.. which is probably why my playing is meh...
Your story is way cooler.
strings2000
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Best environment for strings.
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No option for a bone-slicing environment?
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They don't fare well on Dagobah.
