I thought there’d be time! Broken string sob story.

Adam Tracksler · From: Maine, USA

With the quarantine, I thought I’d have all the time in the world to play pedal steel, but yesterday I managed to break all of the 3rd strings and strings almost like a 3rd string in the house.

Local music store is closed due to NH governor wisely shutting all businesses.

I seriously felt like Burgess Meredith in that twilight zone!

I’ll just have to adapt and overcome around it.

Jerry Overstreet · From: Louisville Ky

You can order single strings from Amazon. Enter 'guitar strings singles' in the search box. They have a lot of music related items.

Did something happen with your guitar that it just started breaking strings? What guitar are you playing?

Adam Tracksler · From: Maine, USA

I ordered some from juststrings.

It’s a moyo and I was adjusting the B pedal and realized after I broke the last one, I went waaay to far.

Gene Tani · From: Pac NW

watch Mullen builder Mike Mantey wind his 3rd (without crossing over the hole in tuning post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkdbQOwvi8w&t=6s
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Adam Tracksler · From: Maine, USA

The Moyo is a keyless so that won't work for me.

I did howver find a stash of loop end banjo strings and carefully put one of the balls from a broken string into the loop and got it working again!

Yankee ingenuity at its best!

Larry Dering · From: Missouri, USA

Stay away from that screen door. Good on you for adapting the banjo string. Now you can use the banjo head for a tambourine. Best wishes.

Lee Baucum · From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier

Hmm. I seem to remember reading about the early E9 players using banjo strings for the high G#.

Bill Miller · From: Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

In 30 years I've never had a 3rd string break at the keyhead and I do make one crossover on the peg. Invariably mine have broken at the changer. And since I started using D'Addario NYXL there's only ever been one break period in over two years. But I change them every three months.

Rich Upright · From: Florida, USA

Have not broken 1 steel string since I went to a tempered tunig 25 years ago.
If you're breaking that many, something ain't right. Try putting a lot of windings on the string so it breaks after the string hole on the peg.
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Erv Niehaus · From: Litchfield, MN, USA

Adam,
I also had to revert to a banjo string years ago.
I was playing a fingertip Sho~Bud and couldn't get my 3rd up to pitch without breaking the string.
I went through all my thin strings for the 3rd and was panicking because I was scheduled to play for a church dedication.
I finally found a music store that had some banjo strings and that 5th string for a banjo did the trick! Very Happy

Erv

Bill Ford · From: Graniteville SC Aiken

My first pedal steel bought new in 1961, Fender 400 banger string for the G#.also bent the hook to straighten the drop from the bridge.
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Steve Sycamore · From: Sweden

But JustStrings is in Milford, NH, isn't it?

Are online businesses allowed to continue operations?

That is the self-imposed standard in Sweden now. Companies are expected, not mandated, to do all they can to contain the outbreak.

Rich Upright · From: Florida, USA

Here's another hint that has worked for me. After putting on the new string(s), tune to pitch, but wait an hour or 2 for the string to settle & stretch before you hit a pedal change.
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