World String Change Day 2025

[tauzero]

I've just had an email from Strings Direct telling me that tomorrow is World Strings Change Day. At about £30 a bass plus a tenner per guitar, that's about a thousand quid I've got to find, not to mention two days of work. I think I will ignore it and hope it goes away.

[Count Bassy]

I'm very strict about changing strings: Every 15 years, whether they need it or not.

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, Count Bassy said:

I'm very strict about changing strings: Every 15 years, whether they need it or not.

 

You could always use flatwounds instead.

[nikon F]

8 hours ago, tauzero said:

I've just had an email from Strings Direct telling me that tomorrow is World Strings Change Day. At about £30 a bass plus a tenner per guitar, that's about a thousand quid I've got to find, not to mention two days of work. I think I will ignore it and hope it goes away.

how about if you changed the strings around on the basses you've got ?, would that count?

[miles'tone]

Business must be slow because flatwounds are really popular again 😆

Edited June 6 by miles'tone

[Terry M.]

The more I try different strings the more I'm convinced they all have in more in common than they don't regardless of brand. I used to be really swayed by the marketing machine but not so much these days. I say that to say whenever a "favourite" of mine becomes too expensive I jump ship to something cheaper and I can't say I've been overly disappointed if at all. I think it was Paul McCartney that was asked what his favourite string choice was and he replied "Long shiny ones" I like that response 😊

[nyhmfa]

On 06/06/2025 at 15:40, Terry M. said:

The more I try different strings the more I'm convinced they all have in more in common than they don't regardless of brand. I used to be really swayed by the marketing machine but not so much these days. I say that to say whenever a "favourite" of mine becomes too expensive I jump ship to something cheaper and I can't say I've been overly disappointed if at all. I think it was Paul McCartney geometry dash lite that was asked what his favourite string choice was and he replied "Long shiny ones" I like that response 😊

🥳

[chris_b]

On 06/06/2025 at 09:40, Terry M. said:

I think it was Paul McCartney that was asked what his favourite string choice was and he replied "Long shiny ones" I like that response . . . .

 

Louis Johnson was asked what strings he used. He replied, "I don't know, what do they put on a Music Man". Apparently he'd been slapping for years with the set of flats his bass came with. 

[TimR]

On 05/06/2025 at 22:00, tauzero said:

Strings Direct telling me that tomorrow is World Strings Change Day.

 

They would say that wouldn't they.

 

Anyway, it was June 6th 2025, and I missed it, so I'll wait until 2035 now. 

Edited 18 hours ago by TimR

[Terry M.]

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

 

Louis Johnson was asked what strings he used. He replied, "I don't know, what do they put on a Music Man". Apparently he'd been slapping for years with the set of flats his bass came with. 

Makes you realise that less choice back then equalled less to worry about. 

[itu]

On 06/06/2025 at 00:00, tauzero said:

At about £30 a bass plus a tenner per guitar, that's about a thousand quid... 

That equals: 

B x £30 + g x £10 = £1000 

g x £10 = £1000 - B x £30 

B = 33 AND g = 1 

Solved. Could you share some pictures of your basses, that g-word sidestep is not of importance. 

[nekomatic]

I didn’t realise there was a World String Change Day. I thought it was like Monopoly where you draw a Chance card and find it’s the dreaded YOU HAVE BEEN ASSESSED FOR STRING CHANGES, £30 PER BASS, £55 PER BASS WITH ELIXIRS. 

[Count Bassy]

8 hours ago, itu said:

That equals: 

B x £30 + g x £10 = £1000 

g x £10 = £1000 - B x £30 

B = 33 AND g = 1 

Solved. Could you share some pictures of your basses, that g-word sidestep is not of importance. 

Pedant alert:

 

There are multple solution though, e.g. B=1 G=97. you can only get a unique solution if we know the total number of instruments (ie G + B).

 

[tauzero]

10 hours ago, itu said:

That equals: 

B x £30 + g x £10 = £1000 

g x £10 = £1000 - B x £30 

B = 33 AND g = 1 

Solved. Could you share some pictures of your basses, that g-word sidestep is not of importance. 

 

Don't forget that I said "about". Having had a recalculation, and bought a bass or two since then, "over" would be a better word. I'd better do an inventory, I'm not sure myself. In terms of basses, fewer[1] than @cetera and more than @neepheid.

 

[1] Note correct English