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Alright, I'm a piano guy and technician who's been hacking more and more on guitar and bass. I'm obsessive about changing strings on my acoustic guitar. I love getting a good tone, and liked messing around with different string makes and styles to get different tonnes.
I just bought my second bass, a Yamaha frettless. I quite regularly change the strings on my other bass, but when I picked up my new bass (that I bought used from a buddy) the strings were quite old, and I commented on that. My buddy (guitar player not bass player) said all his bass buddies told him never to change the strings on a bass. That it's better if you don't.
This goes against everything I've ever heard, or experienced in practiced. But as a piano guy I'm not an expert. Any thoughts on this? On a bass is it better to change often, or leave the strings on for an extended period?
Now that I think of it, I'll try starting a poll with this.
I just bought my second bass, a Yamaha frettless. I quite regularly change the strings on my other bass, but when I picked up my new bass (that I bought used from a buddy) the strings were quite old, and I commented on that. My buddy (guitar player not bass player) said all his bass buddies told him never to change the strings on a bass. That it's better if you don't.
This goes against everything I've ever heard, or experienced in practiced. But as a piano guy I'm not an expert. Any thoughts on this? On a bass is it better to change often, or leave the strings on for an extended period?
Now that I think of it, I'll try starting a poll with this.