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I don't know, my guitar tech handles all that.
Really, about once a month or so. But you do run into the occasional set of strings in which one string goes dead early for no apparent reason. Since I don't keep single strings on hand, I just change out the whole set. |
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Before every performance.
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Back when I used to perform almost every week I changed the strings on my custom D28 every week. I loved the sound of new strings on the Martin, the newer the better. I thought it made my playing sound a few notches better than it actually was!
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The only advantage I can see to using very old strings is if you are trying to learn palm muting. The dead strings will help you get into your head what its supposed to sound like. You have pretty much guaranteed success that then you can transfer to real strings.
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Not often enough. For this year I was trying to use a set of summer guitars to play more outsid, and keep the Orpheums as winter guitars. Also the plan was to change strings at the beginning of the season. Well so far the plan is not going well - I'm playing the Oprheums almost more than the Ovations, and I have not put fresh strings on the Ovations as the weather is just too nice to sit inside and wrestle with strings. But ideally I think I'd like to change them every two or three months on guitars that get played regularly. And yeah the d'Addario NBs can really last that long!
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Usually 1-8 weeks after I notice that I need to do so. Generally every 5-6 months.
Except on my twelve strings, they're usually once or twice per decade. |
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Whether they need it or not?
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Under normal circumstances, every 2 months.
I don't change them when they go dead - because, frankly, mine don't, although a new set is brighter and fuller. I use non coated PB D'addarios. This year has been very different - because of my cancer treatment and after effects, I had to stop playing in April, and I've just finished a stretch of restringing my four dreads, which have had the same sets since Jan/Feb. None were dead but looked a bit coppery. As I write, I have next to me my British made 0028 which usually hangs on the wall in my cell (tiny office) and sounds beautifully, with a set of EJ16s which it has worn since September 2016, and were previously used on my 000. My mandolin is sitting on a chair in the lounge wearing a set of PB strings (JDs) which are of similar age (Sept 16). I have hygrometers all over my house, and despite it being a very cool damp day today, and my wife likes as many windows open as possible, my house seems to be pretty much stable at 45-50% RH. Also - I don't seem to have acid sweat, although much has changed in my body this year and I hope my body chemistry hasn't been changed. Apart from all that - normally - 2 months.
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Still nothing like the sound of brand nooo strings tho'
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When they start to sound dead on my acoustic.
On my electric when they break. |
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My guitars that stay at home all have either Elixers or D'Addario coated strings so I change those when they start to look old an tarnished. Usually about 3 - 6 months. For my gigging guitars, they get changed after the 2nd show because I play harder live and I start breaking strings after the 2nd show.
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I drop my wife off at the hairdressers then walk round the corner to the local guitar shop and get new strings - so that would be every 6 weeks.
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I think putting a time frame is kind of meaningless. We both may change strings every three months but I might play an hour a day and you might play two hours a day.
A better question is how many playing hours before you change strings. |