I was going to bring that up. Coins & bills are one of the germiest things around, handled my many many people.
I've got fermunda cheese on my strings!
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I was going to bring that up. Coins & bills are one of the germiest things around, handled my many many people.
I've got fermunda cheese on my strings!
If you think about it, every bass in a music store has used strings.
That's why I always wear a condom in Guitar Center.
That's why I always wear a condom in Guitar Center.
I'm not interested in buying used strings, but the flats I use never get changed.
My oldest set were installed around 1972 on a 1963 P-bass; when I buy a bass LaBella flats usually go onto it, and I figure they're good indefinitely. I have a few basses with rounds, but all of the strings are 3+ years old, so they have lost that nasty "zing" sound when fingers move on them. I have a set of tapewounds on my fretless that were installed around 1997, and various other sets of flats that are all 10+ years old.
Strings are probably among the cleanest used objects your fingers touch every day. I don't see the problem.
My oldest set were installed around 1972 on a 1963 P-bass; when I buy a bass LaBella flats usually go onto it, and I figure they're good indefinitely. I have a few basses with rounds, but all of the strings are 3+ years old, so they have lost that nasty "zing" sound when fingers move on them. I have a set of tapewounds on my fretless that were installed around 1997, and various other sets of flats that are all 10+ years old.
Strings are probably among the cleanest used objects your fingers touch every day. I don't see the problem.
My daughters are at a local music store taking lessons. The basses they have there (same ones since Sept) are likely less than desireable as I don't even recognize the names on the headstocks but one of these basses has a used e-string that is almost rusting and the other strings just feel grimey. Gives me the willies.
Depends on whether you are giving or getting.
I don't see the point of used strings since new strings are cheap enough. And you have to worry about the now shortened string length. If I were to purchase used strings, I would probably boil them.
Depends on whether you are giving or getting.
Either way, odds are you aren't going to be Captain Kirk and "going where no man has gone before".
As someone reminded me once, "I don't drink water; fish make love in water".
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
You don't even want to know how old some of the bass strings on some of my basses are. Btw G strings get lost in my cavernous b.....
