Saturday Poll: how often do you change your strings?

[Harry Klippton]

How often do you change your strings?

 

[giovanni]

Probably not often enough! I also don’t always play the same guitar and haven’t been gigging so I have no incentive to change strings too often. But I try and do it when I feel that they are dull.

 

[PapaBear]

6-12 months these days, when I was gigging at least monthly and as often as weekly

 

[Coda]

4-6 weeks. Once they start to feel a little ropey and dull-sounding, it’s time to change them.

 

[peccary]

One of the best things about using flats for bass is only having to change them every few decades.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

roundwounds I change at least once every other month (I don’t corrode strings much), but usually more frequently than that. My main guitar I use flatwounds on though, and I change the wound strings on that once every year or two, and then just change the plain strings every two or three weeks.

 

[SYLV9ST9R]

 

[carlinb17]

One should really change their g string daily

 

[fig]

write-in vote....when they break.

 

[PapaBear]

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No I just buy a new guitar

 

[Harry Klippton]

write-in vote....when they break.

I forgot that's even a thing

 

[fig]

I picked 2-6 mo. More often in the winter only because I have more play time.

 

[BuddytheReow]

Changing strings is really annoying. But when I do I always say I’m going to do it more often to get that brightness back. 6-12 months for me

 

[spi]

I said 6-12 mo. because that was the closest to what it usually is, which is around 14-16 mo.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Basses never, baritones 3 to 4 months, standard guitars when in regular use monthly, lately more like every 6 months. My 12 string should be monthly but it's more like yearly or when the lil G snaps.

 

[Stickman393]

I've got a bunch of guitars, and they all get strung with elixirs.

I change em...like...when I start to have intonation issues. Usually takes a LONG time.

 

[Coda]

My skin chemistry kills strings quickly…especially during the Summer…so 4 weeks then. When it’s cooler I can go 6 weeks…unless I play the same guitar all the time.

 

[Paradox916]

I really don’t play a ton these days so I might change strings probably once a year after I went to Daddario NYXLs, they seem to last a while for me... can’t remember the last time I even broke a string.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

My skin chemistry kills strings quickly…especially during the Summer…so 4 weeks then. When it’s cooler I can go 6 weeks…unless I play the same guitar all the time.

The trombone instructor at my school was like that. His hands ate a hole in his slide over like 10 years. That's pretty quick for that thickness of brass/silver plating/lacquer/regular recovering with nail polish. My father is a trumpet player and his horns from the early to mid 60s have a little wear here and there but no freaking holes after decades of heavy use.

 

[Stickman393]

The trombone instructor at my school was like that. His hands ate a hole in his slide over like 10 years. That's pretty quick for that thickness of brass/silver plating/lacquer/regular recovering with nail polish. My father is a trumpet player and his horns from the early to mid 60s have a little wear here and there but no freaking holes after decades of heavy use.

I had a friend like that...called him the palmster.

Even coated strings couldn't stand up to his sweat. Picking up one of his guitars felt like it was strung with razor blades instead of strings.