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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | I've been playing my Viper Bass a lot with our band and ran into this problem of the top string popping out of the nut groove in the middle of playing. My first fix was to reach over and pop it back into place and try to watch my "plucking" on that string.
The situation kept getting worse, so I figured I'd try the lightest gauge base strings I could find.
The light gauge "E" would not even stay on, so I put the medium gauge one back on and popped the string back in to place at our last gig :p
Took the bass in to my local Ovation dealer/repair shop and left it with them to maybe replace the nut.
Turns out I wasn't allowing enough wraps of the string around the tuning pegs to create enough pressure to hold it in place. -DOH~
:rolleyes:
Being a newby to bass playing and of course not changing the strings very often I was trying to wrap the strings like a guitar (one or two times around at the most) and I wasn't sure what to do with the "slots" in the pegs. Got it home after Alan explained how to wrap them and it now has the light guage strings and doesn't pop off!!
We'll see how the light gauage strings work out...
:D |
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