5 SIMPLE TIPS IN
MAINTAINING YOUR GUITAR STRINGS
Maintaining your guitar is the most
important part you should practice as a guitar player. Your love and passion
for music should reflect how your guitar looks like, “If you love music, you
should love your instrument too”. It really doesn’t matter if your guitar is
too old, as long as it is maintained in cleaning and checkup, there’s going to
be no problem, it will still give you the best quality sound you want to
produce.
One of the most important parts of the
guitar you should look after are the strings. The strings are the most
important key to producing musical sounds, and the most stressed part of a
guitar. It is advisable to clean your strings after each practice or performance,
your hands when perspiring produces an acid that can cause rusting on your
guitar strings.
In addition, cleaning your guitar
strings will help you to avoid serious hand and finger injury. It will also
help you in avoiding serious hand and finger infection that may acquire from
rusty strings.
The below are the steps in
cleaning and maintaining the guitar strings based on my experience:
1. If your guitar strings are new, putting them inside a casserole
pan of boiling water will kill some of the bacteria acquire from production. In
addition, the funny thing is, it will help you tune your guitar very easy. It
will also produce a crisp and brilliant sound.
2. Grease and dust are the most common problem of the guitar strings, so
wiping it with a clean and dry cloth will eliminate some grease and dust
acquire from a guitar session.
3. As I have mentioned earlier, hand and finger produce acid that
can cause your strings to produce rust. You will notice it when your strings
are changing in color. You can also feel some sharp and bumpy part if your
strings are rusty. Therefore, the solution for this problem is oil. Putting a
minimal amount of oil in the guitar strings will prevent the formation of rust.
It is strongly suggested to use olive oil for it is famous and in great
quality. It is not necessary to apply it every time; you can do the application
when your guitar is going for a long rest after used.
4. Using a proper and minimal amount of polisher will help your
strings to look shiny and sexy. Just be careful in choosing and buying guitar
string polisher, make sure that it will not cause any allergic reaction when
contact to hands or fingers. Make sure that you do not apply a massive amount
of polish; it might turn up in a very slippery performance for you.
5. Let your strings rest by tuning it down before resting. Letting it
breathe from the stressed you applied on them will make their life span longer.
Tuning your guitar strings down will also avoid the deep damage from the bridge
where your strings are lying and tied up. It will also avoid the breaking of
the strings.
These above tips are all based on
my experience and not intended to be your standard to follow. If you find it
helpful, or you want to add more, you can just leave your suggestions and
comments below.
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