Ukuleles, Strings & Gobblins

Saturday morning while walking through my music room I found a ukulele string on the floor, it had a knot in the end so I knew it was used. I had recently done some string changes and assummed it was one of the strings I took off. Late Sunday night I picked up my fluke from the rack and went to play. The "A" string was gone and I could not figure out what happened. There was a little wrapped around the tuning post. It appears the string broke about the first fret. I have broken strings while tuning and/or strumming, but have never seen one break while sitting in the stand. I live alone (no pets either) so it was either a gobblin or just a strange happening.

That is really strange... I'm going to go with goblins

Those E strings can get awful jealous of strings that are higher than them

Ya got a Ukulele lovin ghost in your midsts.. Let em play, just tell em not to play so hard next time..

How peculiar.. weird, but kinda cool at the same time!

Depending on how high up your rack is, Goblins might not be your primary suspect, troll perhaps?

Tudorp said:

Ya got a Ukulele lovin ghost in your midsts.. Let em play, just tell em not to play so hard next time..

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I was thinking more of putting out a jar for contributions to a string fund.

It happens. I've had strings break twice while a uke was in the case. That happened with an A string on my pocket uke and a high-C string on the 8-string Lanikai I had.

Of course, goblins or gremlins are always a possibility...

John

I'm just imagining the knot through the night..."Must ....hold....on....loosing.....strength..........."