Them's The Breaks

So I was telling Dave, a few weeks ago, about how I had just changed my guitar strings for the first time since I bought it - back in November, I think it was. I said that I figured it'd be good to do so I didn't end up breaking a string during Sunday service. I went on to say that it's been about 5 years since I last broke a string. This morning, I broke two strings in the span of an hour. Nice.

First, I was playing my guitar during rehearsal and busted the high E string. As luck would have it, the strings I'd changed just a few weeks earlier were the spare set I had in my case. Yeah, that would mean that I had no spare strings. Oops. Small tactical error.

I switched to Dave's spare guitar which is left in the equipment room, stage right, for just such an emergency. Got about half way through the set during church and, yep, broke the high E string on that one too. Ri-freakin-diculous.

Luckily (I guess) the first string broke just above the bridge. So I took the little ball from the broken end, passed the broken string through it and gave it a few twists - presto! a "new" string. It actually held up for a few songs, so I was pretty shocked about that one. I think maybe I'll still put an actual new string on instead. Here's hoping it lasts longer than 3 weeks.