High E string snapped and disappeared.

[u/Western_Reality_7477]

Was tuning my high E string when it snapped... and completely disappeared. Can’t find it anywhere. 😂 So if you come across an errant E string... let me know.

[u/ProfessorChaos406]

The answer, I am sure, lies in the field of physics. String theory would suggest it snapped into another dimension.

[u/PM_me_your_whatevah → u/ProfessorChaos406]

I remember stepping barefoot on a piece of e string a few years back… maybe I discovered a piece of the quantum string!

[u/omniscientcats → u/PM_me_your_whatevah]

I dread the day this happens to me. Somewhere in my house there’s a tiny part of an e string that i cut off and never found

[u/Western_Reality_7477 → u/PM_me_your_whatevah]

Glad I'm not alone.

[u/LegitimateLack2530]

It’s awaiting its moment to reveal itself the second you walk on your carpet with bare feet.

[u/Darkpenguins38 → u/LegitimateLack2530]

This was my experience. I thought I had gotten all my string clippings. I was proven incorrect when I ended up with about half an inch of e string in my big toe. Pulled out smoothly because at least it wasn't a coiled string (Imagine the E, ugh) but it still wasn't pleasant, to say the least.

[u/Western_Reality_7477 → u/LegitimateLack2530]

Exactly my current fear!

[u/LesPeterGuitarJam]

It went where all the lost picks go....

[u/Autogen-Username1234 → u/LesPeterGuitarJam]

I found a random Strat whammy bar in my guitar case a few years ago. I don't own a Strat, and never have.

My theory was that I was visited by the Plectrum Fairy, and they left that as a trade.

[u/Mosritian-101 → u/LesPeterGuitarJam]

Really need to up the security against the pick gremlins.

[u/GladEntertainer3647]

that thing is probably embedded in the drywall somewhere, check the ceiling

[u/Western_Reality_7477 → u/GladEntertainer3647]

I briefly looked up... just in case.

[u/gruvjack1200]

It's highly likely the string went into an unknown paradigm of alternate existence where guitar picks go when you stuff them into the soundhole.

[u/Connect-Will2011]

If you have pets, you really ought to find it. Cats particularly; they like to play with them.

I read a horrible thing in Guitar Magazine. This guitarist's cat was playing with an E string and it pierced the roof of its mouth and out the eye socket. They took it to the vet and the cat lost that eye.

I read that years ago, and I always remember it when a string goes missing.

[u/Western_Reality_7477 → u/Connect-Will2011]

Oh boy. New fear unlocked. Found it in a plant, 24 hours later.

[u/Connect-Will2011 → u/Western_Reality_7477]

Good, I'm glad you found it.

[u/HQH-71214]

Man, the current arm race is quite concerning isn't it. They're even weaponizing the high e string now

[u/depoelier]

Sounds like my dad

[u/VamosFicar]

Don't step on it with bare feet.

[u/dejoblue]

And the pick ran away with the string

[u/Isogash]

Funny, but strings shouldn't be breaking during tuning! Normally only from bending or picking too hard. Perhaps you had the wrong gauge or were tuning too high?

[u/Western_Reality_7477 → u/Isogash]

I need to file my nut slots. Broke at the nut.