Hi,
I just bought a brand new uke and received it last night. It is a DaSilva thin body tenor. It came with Worth CT strings (re-entrant). I bought the uke because I loved the sound. The uke has a clear chime like quality with these strings.
However, I was playing it a bit today and then tuned it up (standard GCEA) as the strings were slightly out of tune. Played the uke a bit, all picking, nothing too hard, then set it down next to me and a little while later I hear a snap and see that the G string snapped off from the bridge end. Luckily no scratch to my uke.
The bridge style has the hole perpendicular to the soundboard and the string goes down through the soundboard and the end is not visible. So, not the kind where the string is threaded towards the base of the uke and comes out where the tie is visible.
The strings were new, but had a few players play it prior to me buying it, so was not like they were being played or tuned for the very first time and they had time to stretch. Wonder if this was just a one off case, where maybe a defective string, or if maybe happened to some others with these strings. Suppose it is just a one off, otherwise people would not use them or buy them were it happening more often. But, curious about durability or fragility of these fluorocarbon strings and if anyone else had such problems with durability. Disappointing to have it happen on new strings. Will probably not replace them with the same strings.
I just bought a brand new uke and received it last night. It is a DaSilva thin body tenor. It came with Worth CT strings (re-entrant). I bought the uke because I loved the sound. The uke has a clear chime like quality with these strings.
However, I was playing it a bit today and then tuned it up (standard GCEA) as the strings were slightly out of tune. Played the uke a bit, all picking, nothing too hard, then set it down next to me and a little while later I hear a snap and see that the G string snapped off from the bridge end. Luckily no scratch to my uke.
The bridge style has the hole perpendicular to the soundboard and the string goes down through the soundboard and the end is not visible. So, not the kind where the string is threaded towards the base of the uke and comes out where the tie is visible.
The strings were new, but had a few players play it prior to me buying it, so was not like they were being played or tuned for the very first time and they had time to stretch. Wonder if this was just a one off case, where maybe a defective string, or if maybe happened to some others with these strings. Suppose it is just a one off, otherwise people would not use them or buy them were it happening more often. But, curious about durability or fragility of these fluorocarbon strings and if anyone else had such problems with durability. Disappointing to have it happen on new strings. Will probably not replace them with the same strings.
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