billkilpatrick
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tuning
dear all - i picked up a nice little tip off the "guitar noise" site about how best to tune an instrument. having followed this advise, i
no longer have trouble keeping an instrument in tune. instead of winding the entire string onto a peg (which i used to do...being rather proud of all
the mess up top) i now thread the string through the hole in the peg, give it less than two fingers width worth of slack, twist the excess part of
string around the useful part a couple of times and slowly begin turning the peg. this creates a crimp in the string from which the desired note can
be quickly obtained. instead of covering it over with layers and layers of excess string and letting it float on an uncertain pile, the note is fixed
and is more likely to stay that way.
to most of you this was probably obvious from the very first but people like me require patience and lots and lots of time...
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samzayed
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I am not sure I understand. Are you saying to wrap some excess around the part that goes in the hole of the shaft (between hole and the nut) before
tightening the peg? In other words, there's a "knot like" reinforcement on the peg. I am I right, or way off?
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billkilpatrick
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dear sam - right you are; thread the string through the peg hole, leave a bit of slack (less than two fingers), wrap the excess portion a couple of
times around that part of the string which will produce a sound and slowly begin turning the peg. the person i got this advise from said that this
proceedure, coupled with years of experience and an untold amount of fresh, very expensive strings will make you an expert.
keep twisting (boogety-boogety-boogety-shoo) - bill
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