Why A Guitar Quickly Detunes After Playing, All the possible reasons for the above |
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Why A Guitar Quickly Detunes After Playing, All the possible reasons for the above |
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Apr 30 2007, 09:56 AM |
It could be a numerous of things. So you're positive it's not the tremolo so I won't even go into that area. You say it's the string - One reason could be temerature. Say you keep your guitar in a chilly closet or hanging on a wall in the sun where it gets warm. After a while of playing the guitar from the closet will warm up and the strings will stretch, and it will tune down
The warm guitar will drop in temparture, shorten the strings and tune up. So you pick up the guitar which was tuned alright yesterday and you start suning right away since it's out of tune. Already there your problems start since you're tuning a guitar that would fall into tune after reaching the right temerature. But still, have a look at the tremolo bridge. Is it in perfect level with the guitar body, aligned trem body vs guitar body OR ther's a notch on each side of the trem that should be aligned. -------------------- My bands homepage
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May 2 2007, 05:02 PM |
the whole bridge isn't quite equally parallel to the body (the one that holds the high E string is a little lower - probably not because the strings there are thinner). You also got two Allen screws on top of the bridge that adjust the height -------------------- My bands homepage
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May 2 2007, 06:17 PM |
Oh. Are they for the fine adjustment of height? I mean are they to be used after setting up the springs? I thought that they're for changing intonation and action so I'm still afraid to touch them, but I guess the action changes with the bridge height? Yes, the action changes when you adjust the Allen screws. So Allen screws are to adjust the trem up and down. The screws inside the guitar (the bar that holds the springs) adjust the trem tilt angle. The saddles (if that's what they are called) that each string rests on right in front of where it's attached to the bridge is for intonating. If an open string is at 440 and it's off 440 on fret 12 you'd have to adjust those either backwards or forward. Before doing that you must losen the string quite a bit. A fender kind is easier to intonate, so is a Gibson kind. A Floyd Rose is also easy but it takes a bit longer since you have to move the saddle by hand. (If you first move it, then tune it again and it's still off you'd have to losen the string again and repeat) -------------------- My bands homepage
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May 2 2007, 09:42 PM |
I'm always trying to keep the bar straight and the trem aligned without any end set lower. But never really thought of it the way you describe it.
The idea is to get it to stay in tune and feel comfortable, if it does in that setting you have I guess it's all right. -------------------- My bands homepage
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