“Guitar geniuses aside, where do I start?” The basic idea is simple. You’re going to push the string up or pull it down to raise its pitch. Generally, you move in the direction that has the most space ...

The folks at the Ernie Ball company, which produces 200,000 strings daily, and has sold over 2 billion of them, has come up with a solution, in what it calls the world's first break-resistant string.