I bought my first double bass one month ago, brand new from the store, (Cremona SB-2)
now, I wasn't particuarly keen on the strings it came with, I wanted the nylon weedwackers to learn on. I'd changed guitar strings plenty of times before, so i figured, as long as i changed one string at a time to keep the bridge in place I would be fine.
Everything was going well, until i changed the E sting. The first E note i managed to get out of it whilst tuning it, was incredibly floppy and made a fairly dead sounding E, so i kept tightening up through the scale to the next E note. I did notice it was starting to get quite tight by about the C note, and thought, well it has to be the next E as it was so horribly floppy and dead. Anyway, i got to D# and I hear a loud snap, my bridge has completely snapped in the middle into two!
What happens now? could it have been the bridge had some sort of weakness in the wood it was made out of, or was it something that was purely my fault for tightening it too far, if so, why was the first E note I found completely floppy with a dead note?
Any advice on what I do now (or what i didn't do right), and whats involved with getting it fixed, and perhaps how likely it might be that the store i bought it from would fix it under first year warranty? (i'll call them up anyway and ask, but just curious if its something they should cover if they say they cant or won't)?
Anyway, thanks for any help!
now, I wasn't particuarly keen on the strings it came with, I wanted the nylon weedwackers to learn on. I'd changed guitar strings plenty of times before, so i figured, as long as i changed one string at a time to keep the bridge in place I would be fine.
Everything was going well, until i changed the E sting. The first E note i managed to get out of it whilst tuning it, was incredibly floppy and made a fairly dead sounding E, so i kept tightening up through the scale to the next E note. I did notice it was starting to get quite tight by about the C note, and thought, well it has to be the next E as it was so horribly floppy and dead. Anyway, i got to D# and I hear a loud snap, my bridge has completely snapped in the middle into two!
What happens now? could it have been the bridge had some sort of weakness in the wood it was made out of, or was it something that was purely my fault for tightening it too far, if so, why was the first E note I found completely floppy with a dead note?
Any advice on what I do now (or what i didn't do right), and whats involved with getting it fixed, and perhaps how likely it might be that the store i bought it from would fix it under first year warranty? (i'll call them up anyway and ask, but just curious if its something they should cover if they say they cant or won't)?
Anyway, thanks for any help!
