every buy a string for a cello?

[nandrewjackson]

I went to a local music/guitar shop today with a friend of mine. He had to buy a string for his girlfriends cello.
18 dollars!!!!!
For ONE string!!!


He had like 6 bucks on him, and had to actually write a check for the damn thing.

18 dollars for a string sounds a little crazy, but it's true.
nandrew

[Black Mariah]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

It's not that crazy. You hardly ever have to replace them, and it's about a hundred times more metal than a guitar string. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Have you priced a good set of flatwound bass strings lately? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Miffy rules]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Anything special about the material or construction? 18 dollars for one single string is astonishing.

[AlexL]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Originally posted by nandrewjackson:
He had to buy a string for his girlfriends cello.
18 dollars!!!!!
For ONE string!!!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">She should have just boiled her old one.


- E.

[nandrewjackson]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

boiled? not sure what you mean, there.

[toejam]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Originally posted by nandrewjackson:
boiled? not sure what you mean, there.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Put it in a pot of boiling water to clean it. EVH used to do that back in the day to his old guitar strings to bring them back to life.

[AlexL]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Ding ding ding ding ding!

Bingo is correct.


- E.

[mulder1966]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

My daughter broke the C string on hers and it was $30 if I remember correctly. At least they last a long time. [img]graemlins/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Tekky]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

I used to boil strings... I never could get them to work as well though..

One day my dad saw me boiling them, asked what I was doing. Then asked if it worked, when I told him "Not really" he took the B string for his cheese slicer.

[etaeniura]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Damn-now I have a use for all those old strings! I love cheese....

[nandrewjackson]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

oh, I get it, to clean it.
The string was broken, not just dirty.

[AlexL]

Re: every buy a string for a cello?

Originally posted by nandrewjackson:
oh, I get it, to clean it.
The string was broken, not just dirty.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, well, if it's broken, then you have to freeze it. My mistake.

Just kidding.


- E.