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guitar string bouquet to cheer up the bass player in band Idiopathics; he fell on ice and broke his leg. I was changing my strings the next day so made this; should work with violin strings just the same. g
"Make every note beautiful", Ivan Galamian
“To play a wrong note is INSIGNIFICANT; To play without PASSION is INEXCUSABLE!” , Ludvig Van Beethovan
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Great use of used strings. 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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Old strings are also good as picture hanging wire
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LOL! That's nice! I believe it'll help your friend to get well sooner! Good mood always helps! Pass to him the best regards!
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What a cool idea...and mostly what a kind and loving gesture.
Love them.
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Really neat idea!
I've always hated throwing away the ball ends, and thought they should be good for something. I see you included them as part of the bouquet.
What a nice and thoughtful gift for your friend. Very cool!
"Music is what feelings sound like." ~ Author Unknown
Save your silver wrapped string's. My luthier peels off the silver winding on the string's and saves them in a cup. He has about 5 oz's.
Today's price per oz. of silver is $21.29 usd.
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Great thread!! I am a tree hugger from way back and love all the re-use ideas.
Violinist start date - May 2013
Fiddler start date - May 2014
FIDDLE- Gift from a dear friend. A 1930-40 german copy, of a french copy of a Stradivarius. BOW - $50 carbon fiber. Strings - Dominants with E Pirastro Gold string.
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That's a lovely bouquet! I'm sure your friend really appreciated that. And I agree with the others who said that it seems a shame to throw out used strings.
Another possible use for old guitar strings is as replacement wire in a cheese cutter. I'd clean the string well with alcohol, first, though.
When the work's all done and the sun's settin' low,
I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
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