| Wound Gut String overnight unravel
I have Oliv E and A strings and Goetz plain gut D and G. The olivs are a year or so old, no obvious visual wear, no cracks or separation in the winding prior. Last weekend I packed up the bass and played a show around town, about three days later, I took the bass out of the soft case and the A string has, which had never been there before, stress separations located in quite a few places on the string. Around the bridge I would say the string is unwinding and sprinkled through out the string are thin gaps in the metal wraping.
I don't know if this is normal breaking down, or some other situation that caused this? Seems pretty drastic to me.
I did transport the bass through the Chicago winter. Could it be something with the temperature changes? Causing the gut and winding to separate? But the E string is fine. Impact? The bridge had been slightly moved and needed a little readjusting. But why separations throughout the string and not just at the bridge? The whisky shots sliding down the bar? again, strings looked great before hand and everything else is fine, only the A string.
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