where do you buy your strings

[Hink]

the talk of retail in another thread made me think about this....the key to good deals is reseach and being informed...in an effort to keep all informed...you can't beat this place http://juststrings.com/

I get strings for roughly (within a quarter) the same price I got them with my discount when I was in retail.

I'm not sure of their shipping policies, but if you get together with a group and buy a bulk you can absorb the shipping costs...I don't have them ship it, fortunatley for me it's a ten minute drive. But they do not have a showroom, I have to order it online and they email me when my order is ready for pick-up...last time I placed the order on a sunday night and was home with the strings before noon monday...please take the time to check this place out...you'll thank me...

[C00kie]

I just buy my strings at the music shop nextdoor, thank you. That guy has to make a living also. Shipping!? I go to the counter and leave the shop with the goods

[heavyj]

Musicians Fiend

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=g ... n&it=1GHM1

As an expert on cheap crap I found buying these singles far cheaper. the strings fresher. and they did not break as often as the high priced spread

HeavyJ

[mckenic]

Hi Hink,

Thanks for the heads-up!

I get mine from - http://www.stringbusters.com/ - in the UK I think.
Last time I went into a local music shop to pick up Flatwound strings the guy looked at me as if I had four heads!!! And an E-bow... "Upstairs for violins and things son"



Dave

[Sascha Franck]

I just buy my strings at the music shop nextdoor, thank you. That guy has to make a living also. Shipping!? I go to the counter and leave the shop with the goods

I was thinking pretty much along those lines too.
I'm getting rather good prices in case I buy something larger, so I'll gladly pay a bit more for my strings (and believe me, I buy quite quite some of them, need around 1-2 sets a week, plus a few spare strings).
But then, I can't seem to justify paying around almost the double price anymore, just to see that every other time the strings I need are just out of stock.
Oh yes, as you might've guessed, the local music shops are lame to a higher extent. Actually there's just two (and probably a half which doesn't count at all) and they're behaving like monopolists. Pretty bad for a city with half a million people - so I'm gonna have a look for a good online alternative (of course overseas ordering would be rather questionable).

[androidlove]

We've got a Brook Mays, so I just go there. They often beat or match Musician's Friend, but I've never checked out the diff on strings. Come on, it's strings.

There were the days when I'd build a custom set....so I've been "string sensitive" before.

[Hink]

I guess I'm cheap......the ironic thing is I rarely change strings...probably less often then once a year...basically if I plink two or three I change em....but again I rarely break strings...

[Glassback]