Guitar Strings

I've been practising my guitar a lot lately. I practice whenever I get a chance naturally, but I have been practising a particularly large amount recently. Nothing wrong with that of course: I get a lot of pleasure out of it and my playing gets better at the same time. So everybody wins. Well just me really, but no one else was really involved in the first place.

The only problem I've noticed is that the more I play, the worse my guitar seems to sound. Not me you understand (I always sound great), but the guitar itself. The odd thing is that, in preparation for a gig, I gave the guitar a polish and now it sounds fine again. I mean, the strings could still do with a change, but all in all the guitar is back to it's usual bright sound. I just don't understand why that worked is all.

Maybe it's all part of the mystery of music. When in need, the sound will come. Maybe it's a kind of placebo effect and I'm just playing differently.

Who knows? But it's nice to still be surprised by physics.

— Nexami Engeo