Ricardo -> RE: Stiffness (again) (Sep. 30 2013 5:14:02)
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ORIGINAL: Rmn Ok, so I made an interesting and contra-dictional discovery. Casus today: Humidity at 48%. Guitar sounded dead. Had to force the ligaos so much and there was no punch coming out of the rageao. I couldn't put any feeling in playing. Then I filled the sponge of the sound-hole humidifier with water and put the guitar back into the case with the humidifier for about 40 mins. After that I pulled the guitar out and I could hear a significant change. More sustain, more harmonics, strings feeling thicker and I could play super super softly and do quick ligados and the sound would come out (before even when digged into the guitar, the sound had trouble coming out). The guitar seems more vibrate and even more bright. Now what they usually say is: the higher the humidity the more dull the guitar will sound. I encounter the opposite... They also say that with higher humidity the top will be higher and by that raise the tension of the strings. Couldn't it be that maybe I have to raise the bridge a little to make the top vibrate more? I don't have the proper measuring tools to measure the action of the strings. The difference must be very tiny I think It's funny because I started this thread with wining about the strings being too tense. Now I realize that maybe I was completely wrong, maybe the strings felt tense because there isn't sound coming out of the guitar and maybe I need MORE tension to play more relaxed because there will be more volume, harmonics and sustain and by that I dont have to force so much...... (It has high tension strings put on always) Any thoughts? Thanks! [:)] [:)] I always understood dry times the strings come UP higher, and wet times they come down and buzz. IN other words you can have a lower bone in the winter, and a higher bone in summer to keep the guitar from buzzing. I think it has to do with neck angle, but don't know for sure. The lower action makes a guitar easier to play and the strings snap against the frets too. It's my experience anyway. But for sure if the guitar is fine as it is and it gets too much water it dulls the sound. So I am guessing you have a neck issue, (perhaps when it drys the sound board sinks and the neck comes forward making the guitar stiff?)
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