If it is time for you to change the strings on your guitar, then you need to know what tools and equipment you need and also have an understanding of the process involved. The following guide is designed to help you remove the sixth string so that you can change the string on your acoustic guitar.
In order to help to keep the excess string slack from behaving in an erratic manner while you are working to rotate the tuner, you should use the hand that is not currently tuning the guitar in order to create some artificial tension for the string. You should gently press this sixth string toward the fret board using your index finger, and the rest of your fingers should go to work to lightly pull up against the string. You should continue to rotate the tuner using your other hand. When you have mastered this technique, it will actually save you a significant amount of time and stress while you are changing a guitar string.
As you begin to rotate the guitar tuner, you are going to watch and to make sure that the wrapped string is passing over the string's end portion that is protruding away from the tuning peg during the first time the string wraps around the peg. It is completely normal for the guitar's bridge pin to pop up just a bit during the string tightening process. Simply use your thumb so that you can push it right back down into the proper position.
Immediately after you have passed the wrapped string over the end of the string, you should guide it so that it wraps under the end of the string on the next pass. All of the subsequent wraps are going to wrap beneath this string end, going below the previous wrap-around. You should avoid wrapping in such a way that the strings are crossing over one another or lying on top of one another. Continue to turn the tuning peg counter clockwise until the point where the string has been positioned as close to tune as you can get it. At this point, your tuning should be close to finished.
Although you have achieved approximate tune, you will find that maintaining this pitch is not easy until you stretch the string out. Grab your string somewhere over the guitar's sound hole and pull it gently upwards for a period of several seconds. The string's pitch is going to drop. Now take a moment of time to re-tune that string. Repeat this process a couple of times to make sure that it maintains pitch over time. Once you have achieved the right pitch on a lasting basis you can use a pair of wire snippers to trim whatever excess string remains at the end of the tuning peg. Snip the end off with about 1/4 of an inch remaining on the end.
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Originally posted 2009-10-19 03:03:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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