viola strings?
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2021 1:22 pm
Is there anything cool/inneresting I can do with a set of viola strings?
With holiday time and some extra elbow room, I've been banging away on the guitar over the past week. Maybe unsurprisingly, after not having played the Starcaster for over a year I managed to break a string almost immediately. Didn't want to go to a guitar store at this time of year/wave of the pandemic, so just ordered a few sets online.
When they arrived, mostly everything was fine, but for whatever reason the order picker messed up and I ended up with a set of viola strings! The are "light tension", 16"-17" scale, stranded string core, although the outside of the package doesn't list the string sizes for some reason.
It's almost certainly not worth the effort to try and send these back and get them replaced, so: is there anything fun I could do with them? They're too short to put on a guitar (and that'd be ill-advised anyway, I presume).
Important note: this is *not* the first step on the path to me getting a viola.
With holiday time and some extra elbow room, I've been banging away on the guitar over the past week. Maybe unsurprisingly, after not having played the Starcaster for over a year I managed to break a string almost immediately. Didn't want to go to a guitar store at this time of year/wave of the pandemic, so just ordered a few sets online.
When they arrived, mostly everything was fine, but for whatever reason the order picker messed up and I ended up with a set of viola strings! The are "light tension", 16"-17" scale, stranded string core, although the outside of the package doesn't list the string sizes for some reason.
It's almost certainly not worth the effort to try and send these back and get them replaced, so: is there anything fun I could do with them? They're too short to put on a guitar (and that'd be ill-advised anyway, I presume).
Important note: this is *not* the first step on the path to me getting a viola.