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Re: The Guitar Topic - B
Ballard:
ITT: doombilly returns and is still ace
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Lummer on 10 May 2009, 13:15 ---
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 09 May 2009, 14:11 ---I'm not a guitarist, I'm a musician. Guitar just happens to be my main instrument.
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That really is a quite curious sentence. I know, it's supposed to distance you from us pretentious pricks that call ourselves "Guitarists" or God Forbid, "LEAD Guitarists", but it just ends up making anyone who says it come off as more pretentious. Why is that so?
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Because guitar is boring.
Srsly.
Okay, guitar is pretty kick ass. But I want waaaay more than just guitar. I'm seriously working on violin right now and want to get up to snuff on that so that I can say that violin and guitar are my two main instruments. I'm buying a bouzouki soon and will practice the hell out of it. I am a musician, and guitar just happened to be the first instrument I picked up because it is so readily accessible, easily played, and so many people can help me on it.
Mentioning help:
I am trying to put a new high E-string on my electric, but it keeps twanging. That is, I start to tune it, and then it suddenly gets insanely loose again, then I tune it so that it's slightly taut, then it gets loose again. What is going on I am freaking out here because I can't afford new strings.
Also, I took this string off of my acoustic to put on my electric, but I have done this often and this hasn't happened.
Lummer:
You just need to learn to put the strings on properly, so that they "lock" around the tuning peg. It's nigh-on impossible to explain how to do it in writing, though.
Zingoleb:
I know how to put on the strings, I've been doing it for almost three years and I have never had this problem before.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Zingoleb on 12 May 2009, 13:34 ---Mentioning help:
I am trying to put a new high E-string on my electric, but it keeps twanging. That is, I start to tune it, and then it suddenly gets insanely loose again, then I tune it so that it's slightly taut, then it gets loose again. What is going on I am freaking out here because I can't afford new strings.
Also, I took this string off of my acoustic to put on my electric, but I have done this often and this hasn't happened.
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Maybe the winding near the ball end is coming undone. That happened on my Jag maybe 2 string sets ago. The winding around the ball end might be coming back up through the 'noose' knot where they wrap the string around itself to keep it from coming apart completely if this exact thing happens.
Take a good look at where the 'noose' knot is on this string as compared to the other strings. If it's closer to the tailpiece than the rest of your strings, you've got the culprit right there. Harmless in the long run, but it's a pain in the ass retuning every time until it finally decides there's no more slack to eat up.
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