If, after you change all the strings, and tune them up to pitch, you let the instrument sit tuned up for 24 hours or so, you will find that they will last a couple of months. When I would change strings and then immediately start playing (and I tend to have a fairly heavy right hand, and string killing sweat to boot), they wouldn't last 15 minutes. The other way, I only have to change them 3 or 4 times a year.


Mark Ross