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Ricardo -> RE: tuning new strings - help!!! (Nov. 3 2007 15:33:28)
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A trick is when you put new strings on the guitar, get it roughly in tune and then pull each string up away from the finger board about 3 inches. Yank the string up and down several times to really stretch it. Dont worry, you wont break the string. repeat that for each string and then retune the guitar. Do that a couple more times and the guitar will much more settled
I used to do this too, but an older friend warned me, the bass strings especially, saw into the wood of the tie block when you do that, and he had to get the bridge fixed because he messed up his guitar really bad from doing that.
What I do instead, is change half the strings, trebs or basses, (usually basses more often because they die quick) by tuning them sharp a half step. Then when it settles DOWN, they are pretty close to the pitch I want. I can get strings tuned up in 5 minutes this way.
Trebs take longer to stretch, but again I change those much less often then the basses. Again, I tune just the trebs a half step sharp. To break them in, I play a bit of Gerardo's solea por buleria that uses a similar tunning. I wonder if that is how he came up with that tune, by having the trebs a half step sharpe, stretching them out. The real tune is said to have the 3 basses a half step flat, but hopefully you can see the logic.
But anyway, no more hard tugging.
Ricardo
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