Break a string in a guitar store.

[Pekker_Head]

What you suppose to do if you do this? I was at a store and was playing an Epiphone Les Paul. I was playing it for a while and did a pinch harmonic on the high E and it snapped. I put it back up and left. :o

[Jstickley]

What you suppose to do if you do this? I was at a store and was playing an Epiphone Les Paul. I was playing it for a while and did a pinch harmonic on the high E and it snapped. I put it back up and left. :o


That is a very cowardly thing to do, Expecially since guys like me are the ones typically replacing those strings.

The stand up thing to do would have been to let somone at the store know, that you broke one of THERE strings and that you were sorry.

If it were my store and i saw this happen, you would have paid for that string, but thats just me.

Jesse

[crocket]

I've read a few things on this forum about the cost of strings. Stuff like; how often should I replace them or how long will they last or even should I boil them to remove built-up grease!

Are strings expensive in America or something?
Over here we can get them for £1.79 a set (about $3) so I replace mine every week on both my guitars. Keeps 'em sounding nice and bright, especially the acoustic.

You shoulda told the guy in the shop though - I bet he wouldn't have minded too much. Then again, I bet I would have said nothing too :o

[SanityAssassin]

I think you should have let someone know. I don't think they would be angry if you were honest about it.

I don't have much working experience, but I worked as a waiter in an outdoor restaurant. Glasses were breaking all the time. The customers were so worried if they broke anything, but for us it was "just another glass". It was really no problem if something like that happened there.

Maybe guitar strings don't break as often as glass, but still, I guess it is quite common and not much to worry about as long as you are honest about it.

[disobedience]

I think you should have at least let them know. Breaking a string is not a big deal...and music stores generally have a repair shop that is filled with strings :D

I've broken strings on new guitars...heck..I've broken new guitars, blown up new amps...that's life. If I'm testing out a new peice of equipment...I test it to make sure it'll hold up to what I do live.
Sometimes the amp they suggested and told me could take it...can't hack it in the showroom and blows.

I have noticed lately (last few years) that they don't try to push cheap equipment my way anymore...hmmmm

[Ring0]

You do know strings on guitar stores are more prone to breaking, what with the strings being (ab)used by so many people and detuning/slack being left and.. You get the idea.

I would had still let them know lol, if they made me pay for it I would had left then. If I had made the string break by overtuning or bending too much I understand they ask me to pay but over a pinch harmonic? No chance pal, I'd rather save up the cents a string costs and get a coffee :p

[Bounty]

I've done it twice. I let them know both times and both time they said man it happens all the time. Both stores had a drawer full of b & e strings. didn't have to pay for it either.

[NapoLoso]

'Hahah
hahahah think it's kinda funny tho, just put it back and left haha.
but it's not the first time it happens im sure so they are used to
it, or u could have told them ' eerrrr i was gonna play this but
it was like that when i found it ' heheh jk

[bcrich]

LOL I think we have all done it a time or 2. I used to break acoustic stings all the time in this one guitar store. I was welcomed back to the store unitl I blew a speaker in a Mesa Boogie stack and all of a sudden they didn't like me anymore. Oh well that was a long time ago.

[zeppelin666]

ive done it once and i just went up and i said "im sorry i broke the string ill pay for it if you want" and they said its alright and gave me two packs of dadarios

[Bounty]

I blew a speaker in a Mesa Boogie stack and all of a sudden they didn't like me anymore. Oh well that was a long time ago.

Holy S***!!! That sounds like an awkward moment.:eek:

[Pekker_Head]

Heres a funny update, I went back to the store to buy a Metallica Tab book (St.Anger) and when I went to buy it, the guy took it and scanned and I swear he said this "Strings are half off today, do you want to buy some" first I said huh and he said it again, then rolled on their floor laughing.

Why did Jstickley get banned?

[james]

strings are half off at every guitar store every day.

[Pekker_Head]

strings are half off at every guitar store every day.
Especially the ones I go to....
Though my guitar store requires you to buy 1 and get one free./ Too bad the one costs more then both of them combines. :mad:

[blue_wolf_hound]

I broke a string on $10,000 Les Paul. Needless to say I had to confess, as the guy had to hang it back up behind the counter :(. I had fun while I was playing it though.

[Pekker_Head]

I broke a string on $10,000 Les Paul. Needless to say I had to confess, as the guy had to hang it back up behind the counter :(. I had fun while I was playing it though.
Is that something you should really be responsible for though? If you know it wasn't anything you did but the string age and brand and the guitar itself caused it to break? Catch my drift?

[blue_wolf_hound]

Is that something you should really be responsible for though? If you know it wasn't anything you did but the string age and brand and the guitar itself caused it to break? Catch my drift?

Either way it was embarrassing, and I was playing Master of Puppets. My mistake for sure.