The other influence of good strings

[WBlues]

Well, I have been using Elixir strings for many years and many considerations.
Pleasant surface, i.e. roughness and thus no background noise, but also durability counted here.

I am convinced that there are not only advantages in one product; like a hard metal is more resilient than a softer metal, but not as elastic. You have to choose where your main needs are covered.

These Elixir strings last incredibly long.
When do I need to change these strings?

The point is not so much the haptics, which become more uncomfortable over time.
With these strings it’s actually the disappearance of octave purity, particularly the e’ string.

If this string starts to fall out of octave purity, it’s time to put on new strings.
The reason lies in the lost relaxation of the steel string itself, which cannot be determined by the haptics.
The negative influence of relaxation increases with decreasing string length. This in turn is due to the fact that this negative influence of greater string length cannot prevail.
Accordingly, only with the gripping of the frets on the fingerboard. Therefore, the string can be tuned at fret zero; but continuously loses octave purity from fret to fret towards the 12th fret.

So changing the strings is a useful clue. No matter how often it is played and/or the instrument is in a climatically unfavorable environment.

Maybe interesting.

Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.

Wilfried

[sunjamr]

I have a Braun electric toothbrush, where the bristles are designed to fade at the tips with use. The older the brush, the more fading, so when the fading reaches about 1/3 of the way down the bristle, it’s time to change the toothbrush head.

Same with my Elixir Nanowebs. After using them for a while, little hairs start to appear where my fingers are picking them. It’s the nanoweb polymers starting to tear apart. That’s generally around the sound hole, for my acoustic guitars. After maybe 6-8 months, my strings are starting to look quite hairy in that area, and beginning to sound kind of dull. It’s kind of embarrassing for people to see them, so I change them.

I hadn’t thought of octave purity as a measure of string quality, but I’ll pay more attention to it now.

Sunjamr Steve

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