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.

Anywhere the string makes contact with the guitar can have an effect on tuning stability. What we want is unencumbered travel and string vibration – not restrictive debris and sharp edges.

Tuning pegs – The tuning pegs allow you to raise or lower the pitch of each string until they are in tune. Nut – Sits between the fretboard and the headstock. It allows the strings to move in a ...

Each guitar takes about 15 feet of steel string, and the factory uses more than 500,000 feet of wire each year, estimates Frank Untermyer, its director of supply-chain management.