Strangest thing the GUITAR has done when you're playing?

[Ryan0594]

Finally, a bum note that I have an excuse for!

I restrung my '09 MiM on Saturday and tuned it a few times since. Now, just about 10 minutes into playing it properly, I just went to hit a fretted D string (5th fret) to find all the tension was lost (the knot kinda slipped cause it wasn't tight!) and the note was like a low E.

Just made me think - what is the strangest thing the GUITAR has done when you're playing!? This should be fun!

[DeepDrummer]

I had a punky sounding string once. I finally found a tiny bit of white grease on the string south of the nut. I was amazed how the sound came back after I wiped it off. It was tiny. Not much but the is about the only strange thing that has happened to me

[telleutelleme]

Strangest thing the GUITAR has done when you're playing?

Sounded really good.

Playing with the volume knob and watched it fly across the room.

[Ryan0594]

Originally Posted by telleutelleme

Sounded really good.

I wouldn't mind that happening to mine one day!

[Telesavalis]

I had an old elastic capo come loose and fly across the room once.

[Controller]

The neck-end of the strap untied itself as I was playing and the 12 string guitar plummeted down to the concrete floor below. Ouch!!!

[musicalmartin]

It got stopped and searched in Hyde Park after a 60's anti God knows what and who cares demo .The police always had a strange theory that my Harmony Sovereign was really a drugs carrier and had a secret compartment .They would stick their hands in the sound hole and get them stuck and get all annoyed cos I wasnt carrying a huge stash .OK I looked as if I should be smoking dope and I had long hair,a girlfriend with long hair , a guitar ,.and a Golden Virginia baccy tin .Four good solid reasons to nick me .

[jonzer]

It got me a girl once.

[Stubee]

Used to hitchhike 100 miles in the winter to see my son (I was broke) so put masking tape on each side of my guitar case indicating where I was headed. I was also long-haired but got good rides pretty darned quick.

Guys with guitars = safe.

[Ryan0594]

Originally Posted by musicalmartin

It got stopped and searched in Hyde Park after a 60's anti God knows what and who cares demo .The police always had a strange theory that my Harmony Sovereign was really a drugs carrier and had a secret compartment .They would stick their hands in the sound hole and get them stuck and get all annoyed cos I wasnt carrying a huge stash .OK I looked as if I should be smoking dope and I had long hair,a girlfriend with long hair , a guitar ,.and a Golden Virginia baccy tin .Four good solid reasons to nick me .

You've given me a whole new set of ideas about how to use my my Epiphone Dot... and its sound holes... dammit, knew I shoulda got a hollow-body!

[tele1]

Melted when I was playing it...That was many many years ago, and I quit that nasty stuff........

[PapaLion]

Ok then, I bought a small Gibson 12 string mahogony sides, spruce top like a L series but 12 string. I bought it from a young widow in Phoenx, who said her husband had owned and played the guitar a lot. I don't live in Phoenx, I live in Yuma.

I restrung it, sat down to play and within about twenty minutes I was playing songs I had maybe heard somewhere but never played before. There were two or three, including one old folk ballad. I wrote it off that the instrument had the sounds and I had clicked and heard the song in my doodling and strumming etc... hard to describe but sometimes you pick up a guitar and a unique sound is there. One problem this was 2-3 complete songs, not just a riff or two.

Several years passed, the guitar hung around the store and got played some. One day a guy and girl came into my store in Yuma; same girl new love... she recognized me. I took down the 12 string and played the song I had learned from the guitar years earlier, played it all the way through. I looked, she was pale as a sheet. Then she told me, it was her deceased husbands favorite song which he played almost daily on that guitar. Shocked us both of course.

I sold it a year later to a dear friend and young professional musician.

[Tonemonkey]

Originally Posted by Ryan0594

Strangest thing the GUITAR has done when you're playing?

Told me I was shet and went for a pint with a chick in the front row....... life's like that. Fickle things, guitars.

[telepicker52]

While rehearsing w/ my first garage band, I pulled on whammy bar & it fell off in my hand!! It was my first electric, a '65 Silvertone.

[trev333]

I don't know if it's a strange happening..

a string broke at the ball end while doing a bend.. the string snapped up and the twist stuck into my hand..... ouch.. drew blood...

impaled on my guitar?...

[qwerty95]

A borrowed Strat had both strap pins fall out simultaneously once, and it just kinda fell and bounced. It was pretty damn funny. I had a loose volume knob just fall off a few days ago, too. I was playing and it dropped on the concrete floor in my garage and scared the hell out of me.

[IdahoPicker]

I've had the D string break a couple times. It's weird when the core breaks, but not the winding.

I've also gotten a metal sliver from my (then new) FSR Ash Tele. I was a little scared to play it before I had the frets properly set up.

That's about as exciting as it gets for me.

[Nick JD]

I had one bend around me once while playing, but that was back in the "sixties".

[wayloncash]

One time fire works started shooting out the bridge, then my fingertips caught on fire, smoke started coming out my ears . Theni played so hard the guitar exploded into splinters, then I played the splinters until they exploded too. Top that

[cband7]

Originally Posted by tele1

Melted when I was playing it...That was many many years ago, and I quit that nasty stuff........

I 'sort of' remember those days.........



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