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Sorry to start another thread about boiling strings, but I couldn't find the previous ones that discussed it, so anyway...
Has anyone ever heard or experienced a weakening of the strings as a result of boiling them? Based on the input of several on this forum, I tried boiling my strings a few weeks ago...well, at a show on Friday night, my D-string broke. That has only happened to me one other time in the 20+ years that I've been playing, so I wonder if boiling my strings might have been a contributing factor.
Regardless, I think I will discontinue that practice in the future. It may just have been a coincidence, but I'd rather not take the chance. Unfortunately, I didn't have any extra strings, so it was a stressful rest of the evening trying to play without a D. :shock:
Has anyone ever heard or experienced a weakening of the strings as a result of boiling them? Based on the input of several on this forum, I tried boiling my strings a few weeks ago...well, at a show on Friday night, my D-string broke. That has only happened to me one other time in the 20+ years that I've been playing, so I wonder if boiling my strings might have been a contributing factor.
Regardless, I think I will discontinue that practice in the future. It may just have been a coincidence, but I'd rather not take the chance. Unfortunately, I didn't have any extra strings, so it was a stressful rest of the evening trying to play without a D. :shock: