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| Hey guys, whenever i tune my guitar (periodically, when needed) the strings are always a LITTLE sharp. I recently changed strings and messed with the truss rod a little bit. Do you think i made it too tight?
I only have to tune it at a normal rate. Any help would be great, thanks |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Welcome Bryan.
If you mean that when you leave your guitar for a day or so, when you go back to play it again they have drifted sharp instead of flat...
I have had the same problem... I asked the other folks about that earlier...
Click here to find-out what they said...
If that ain't your problem or doesn't answer you question, stick around.
Someone might have a better idea. :cool: |
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| haha, idk how that name got in the signature, but my names actually ryan.
thanks a lot guys, i was reading arthur's thread and realized it might be something with the humnidity; it's getting warmer around here (and a little more humid) up in the San Francisco Bay Area. I'll just keep an eye on it for the next few weeks |
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| Originally posted by civicex2:
Hey guys, whenever i tune my guitar (periodically, when needed) the strings are always a LITTLE sharp. I recently changed strings and messed with the truss rod a little bit. Do you think i made it too tight?
I only have to tune it at a normal rate. Any help would be great, thanks There are things that you can mess up with the truss rod like the strings might buzz at places on the neck if it's too tight or if it's way too loose it might go sharp as you play up the neck or whatever but if you're talking about just the open strings being in or out of tune at any particular time then the truss rod isn't going to effect that a whole lot unless it's messed up like it's been in a car accident etc. The open strings are either in tune or they're not.
I'm not sure what you mean by "tuning periodically when needed" and "I only have to tune at the normal rate."
They need to be tuned when the need to be tuned which is more or less all the time.
A guitar can go sharp sitting in the case because of whether conditions or it can be bang on when you take it out of the case but go off 10 minutes later because it's not in the case anymore and that's another difference.
Any time I pick up one of mine I check the tuning and it's not unusual for them to go out a bit as they're being played for awhile. My Ovation holds it's tuning better than my all wood guitars but it's not a piano. |
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Is my truss rod too tight?
