Has this ever happened to you...

[Mickyk]

Spot the deliberate mistake around the 1:10 minute mark.

😂🤣😂.

 

[Lozz196]

Happened to me when the strap button came out on my Thunderbird, it didn’t need that much of an excuse to dive to the floor anyway, but this totally floored it. Fortunately it happened on the last note of the last song in the encore so not too much of a problem.

[Al Nico]

I put up with it for a long time in the 80's. Then one day, on the counter of a music shop in Leeds city centre, there was a sweet jar with hand written label "strap locks".

It was full of these curious looking things. Have been using the same pair ever since.

I recently took them apart and cleaned them for the first time as they were getting stiff. They must be 40 years old. How wonderful.

 

[casapete]

8 minutes ago, Al Nico said:

I put up with it for a long time in the 80's. Then one day, on the counter of a music shop in Leeds city centre, there was a sweet jar with hand written label "strap locks".

It was full of these curious looking things. Have been using the same pair ever since.

I recently took them apart and cleaned them for the first time as they were getting stiff. They must be 40 years old. How wonderful.

 

Me too - brilliant things.

I’ve had my Dunlop ones for eons now and have never let me down once.

 

( Also used to use Grolsch bottle top washers which were also reliable, albeit a 

bit awkward to get on and off.)

 

[chris_b]

I bought my first set of Dunlop strap locks in the late 80's. I'm still using the same set on my main bass.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I swear by Grolsch-type rubber washers and the various versions made in other colours by Fender, Ernie Ball etc.

[tauzero]

Yes - when playing in my bedroom, the strap came off my Les Paul copy guitar and it hit the kickstart of a bike engine that was also in my bedroom, putting a big dent in it.

 

Then in 1988 I bought a Warwick with Schaller straplocks, and every instrument that can be fitted with them since then has been.

 

At last night's open mic, the strap came off the guitar of the guy who was doing house band duty with me for the final number. It was a straplock failure, a Fender one that had come unscrewed from the strap. Fortunately he had hold of it and was able to sit on his amp to finish the song.