Saturday, January 10, 2009

When to Change Your Strings

In time, sweat and dirt from your hands will start to tarnish and dull the guitar strings. Eventually, the high-end brilliance and low-end bass frequencies suffer. The guitar sounds less vibrant and full. The instrument also does not ring as long.

A guitar with old strings is also harder to tune. The string eventually becomes fatigued from the constant pressure of being stretched across the guitar. Here are some tuning problems you may encounter:
• You may constantly need to retune certain strings.
• Some strings may seem to be in tune for one chord, but out of tune for others.
In any of these situations, you should change the strings.

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