How many times have you broken a string?

[PaulWarning]

a poll on how many times you've broken a bass string, be interesting if it was pick or fingers

[bagsieblue]

Good question, 20 years of playing, 99% fingers.
Broken 3 maybe 4 strings into total, often the D String.....?

[ambient]

Never in 20 years.

[bartelby]

28 years of playing. with fingers and pick.
I think I've snapped 3 - 5 E strings, all within the first 2 years of playing.

[thebrig]

Never! Never! Never!

Unless there is a flaw in the string, I just don't see how you can break a string.

[Roland Rock]

I snapped an E string while playing a particularly heavy version of Day Tripper. It was with a pick.

That was twenty years ago, several months after taking up bass, and several hours before our first gig. Never broken one since.

Edited August 18, 2016 by Roland Rock

[PaulWarning]

I wonder if certain basses are more susceptible to breaking strings?

Edited August 18, 2016 by PaulWarning

[Cato]

I got through a few when I first started around 25 years ago. I used to have a very aggressive pick style. About a year in I switched to a much gentler finger style and I've only had one string break on me since then, about 10 years ago an E string broke at the nut whilst the bass was propped up against the wall, not being played.

[JapanAxe]

I play 99% fingerstyle now, but I have never snapped a bass string, not even when I only played with a pick.

Also I have never broken an electric guitars string on a gig, and only once in a rehearsal.

[PaulWarning]

I'm surprised how many E strings get broken, I would have thought that one would be the least likely to break, given how thick it is

[Roland Rock]

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I'm surprised how many E strings get broken, I would have thought that one would be the least likely to break, given how thick it is
[/quote]

...but it's also first in line to encounter a particularly careless heavy downward blow

[luckydog]

3 times, always 4-E, always fingers, different basses.

LD

[molan]

One new G string when first fitting and tuning it.

[spectoremg]

17 years, finger style, 105 gauge strings, never.

[miles'tone]

25 years playing, never broke a string.

[discreet]

Never in 40 years, finger and pick. What am I doing wrong??

[Lozz196]

I voted twice as I`m pretty sure it`s happened more than once in my 35 years of playing. I play with a pick, and the one string I def remember breaking was the A string.

[gjones]

I have a vague recollection of breaking one at a gig decades ago. I carry spares though.

I snapped one, tuning up at home, about 10 years ago.

[skankdelvar]

Once in 40 years. The breakage occurred around 1974-5 and the string was probably a Rotosound as that was all they had down the local music shop in those days.

[anzoid]

Once - when I was tunng the E string on a short scale bass I'd been lent when I was starting out 25 years ago - didn't quite know what I was doing, the snap as it went was pretty impressive.
Actually playing... never snapped a string, ever and don't intend to

[HowieBass]

I used to play with a pick many years ago and those are the couple of times I broke a string - I only play fingerstyle now and haven't snapped a string this way.

[woodenshirt]

Twice. Both in 1976 and using a pick. A dodgy Shaftesbury bridge the culprit.

Not broken one since.

Mart

[OddBass65]

Twice. 1985. Fender Telecaster bass with a sharp bridge saddle. Fixed that and since then, none.

[paul_5]

I broke 3 bottom Es and an A.

I know.

Turns out that the 2 basses in question had 'bridge issues' that were responsible. One was my first bass at the tender age of 17, the other was only a couple of years ago and I should really have checked...

[Thunderbird]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]One new A string when first fitting and tuning it[/font][/color]