She set the table up with anti slip mats etc and managed to remember to loosen my old strings before cutting them. Then she took them off and gave me a good polish with some special stuff. Then she started putting the new strings on. I was shaking a little as she did this and she forgot the capo to stop the strings coming out of my tailpiece. She managed to wind the strings the wrong way for my G and D strings that she put on first, but she realised what she had done after I gave her a nudge, so she had to take them off and open a new packet. Good job she had a box of 10 sent by mistake, instead of one packet! She then did a reasonable job I think of winding them on after she remembered the capo and she was quite careful to balance my tail piece. She also remembered to stretch the strings first and I started to relax a little. Then we were done and a last polish and tuning them up.
I think I feel ok. Just need to make sure she has seated the strings properly in my tailpiece and she hasn't wound the strings on quite as neatly as Mickey, but for a first go, not bad I suppose. She means well and tries hard. We will see what happens at rehersal this afternoon. She mentioned taking someone else just in case she had messed up. Phew. I am glad that is over!"
Yea!!! I think I restrung Little Ricky ok. I am really proud, but I will reserve judgement until after rehersal. Maybe I had better take one of the others too! Just in case I did something stupid that I havn't noticed.
I kow you will all think this is no big deal, but FIRST TIME for me.
What a sense of achievement!!
