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Mouse's Cubby Hole Part 2
The first blog, Mouse's Cubby Hole, seems to take a long time to load now, so I am starting a part 2.
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July 8, 2025 - 12:13 pm
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I finally did it. I changed my viola strings. No  ridge popping! I get so stressed changing strings. 

I will be ready to with serious playing after they settle down. 

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Cool. I played Memory after I changed the viola strings. When I went into the kitchen, my husband asked what that was, and if I was playing my violin. I told him it was Memory on my viola. He said, "That sounded darn nice!" Cool. I did not know he was listening. I thought he was still at the computer with his headset on watching a semi-local farmer's YouTube channel. 

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I was going to give my viola another go tonight, but I decided to let the strings rest. I would have to keep tuning them while playing. I did tune them.

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Something stuck in my mind about strings settling in... from Joe Walsh (Eagles guitarist) - of all people. 🤭  

After he installs new guitar strings, he manually stretches them - pulls 1 string (at a time) up away from the fingerboard several times, then retunes.  If I remember right, he does this 2 or 3 times.

I wouldn't do it to the E string, but I have done it to the others & seemed it helped speed up tuning stability.  Now I use Rondos - I do pluck them hard a few times, but they basically take no time to settle.  

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