Quest for Monday: new bouzouki strings!

My poor bouzouki, having suffered my mistuning of it before one of the recent Jams, has been waiting in reproachful silence for me to fix its broken D string. Today, after finally swapping out the B string on my guitar so it'll stop rattling against the bridge, I resolved to try to deal with the zouk...

Only to discover that I actually don't have any appropriate strings for it. Doh. I have extra mandolin and mandola strings, but none of them are appropriate for the D string in question--because it's the high D on the octave-tuned D course, not the low one. The D strings I have would be an adequate swap for the bronze-wrapped low one, but none of them are plain steel.

I called the music store in downtown Bothell as well as Trading Musician in the U-district, but neither of them have bouzouki strings in stock. If we still lived in the U-district I would totally be on my way over to Dusty Strings right now since I'm certain I'd find bouzouki strings there. But as it stands, I shall simply have to go on a quest to Lark in the Morning on Monday evening after work. They, when called, confirmed that they do indeed have bouzouki strings.

In the meantime I have discovered how to actually get the bridge peg out so I can get the loose string off: it requires just a bit of gentle twisting with a pair of needle-nose pliers. I shall attempt to retune the rest of the strings in the meantime, just to remind poor Spring that I do indeed still love him.

Also, I am pre-emptively and categorically denying any accusations that this entire post is an excuse for gratuitous use of turple_purtle's loverly Alan With Bouzouki icon. So there.