Old strings: Can't someone benefit?

Matt-White · 2011-05-24T20:58:22+00:00

A long story, but pse bear with me. Two years ago we went to the Strab Festival at Ponta Malongane in Moz. There was this old local with a nylon string acoustic. Its top was held down by masking tape, it only had four strings and he played in a tuning of his own. But he was great. He asked us for some strings - any type. He stuffed them in his pockets, new and used strings, for later use. Since then Ive been feeling guilty when I change strings, thinking of him - how much he needed any old string to do his craft. There must be a lot of people out there in the same situation. Or who cannot regularly afford strings. Hell, I can recall when I started out, I had to scrounge around for money for a new set. Here's my Q: Can't we work out a system where we drop sets of secondhands at, say, the local guitar shop? They can keep it in a box for collection (by us) and redistribution. But to whom? Do you have any ideas who could benefit? Or, and pse be frank, is this just a dumb idea? It just seems such a waste ripping of and discarding a set of strings with a lot of life still left in them because they are "too dull" or because (in my case) you're afraid one might break at the next gig... Tx for your time.

Demigod

For some reason i just get it over my heart to throw old strings away...donno what it is lol. My bottom drawer is full of strings of all gauges ?

IceCreamMan

To revive this one , is there someone/somewhere we can drop off old strings to be reused?

Bob-Dubery

IceCreamMan wrote
To revive this one , is there someone/somewhere we can drop off old strings to be reused?

McGibbon's

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