New Strings

October 27new strings,mandolin,strings

I am thankful for new strings. I picked up my mandolin today and one of the strings could not be tuned because it kept slipping on the tuning peg. So I decided to change all of my strings since they were rather old anyway. This gave me the idea for today's blog. New strings sound clear and bright, and ring beautifully. Much better than old strings. I did a blog on tune ups on 8/28/13 using my mandolin tuners. New strings are different than tuning alone because tuning resets the pitch of the same string, whereas new strings add clarity and depth of sound. In a human analogy, a tune up uses all the same ingredients, it just optimizes things. However, new strings call for something new. We could say that we are setting new goals, new projects, or doing something else new. New goals are good in that they redirect your efforts to something else and, hopefully, the result is "clear", "pure", "adds depth", and "rings".

This is a photo of my mandolin after I changed the strings today. I had a set of new strings but broke the E string by accident so I had to go to the music store and purchased a new set. After putting in the new strings and re-tuning, the mandolin sounded smooth and beautiful.

new strings

when the music does not sound just right

and the notes fade into the night

when picking and sawing on the strings

are no longer such effective things

a measure that is not too bold

it is time to replace the old

and put in some new strings

so that your music sings.

© rt tulley