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I was just wondering,how many of you,that playin standard tuning ,always tune your first and second string,slightly flat.I didn't realize just how flat that Ituned them.untill I purchased a Korg GT-12...

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When I tune, I tune everything dead on except the G string, which I set a few cents sharp, and the low (6th) E which I set a few cents flat. This sounds the best to me on both my D-16 and My LSV.Mark

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That's an interesting observation. I set the low E string slightly flatter, but just barely, as it helps keep it intoned all the way up the neck a little better..Not the b & e, though, although I...

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It’s not your ear. Many players in my experience tune for either the G or D chord and live with what they get. The E or B strings sometimes behave themselves and sometimes not.

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Nothing used to drive me crazy faster than listening to the other guitarist in my old band tune up. He'd tune his Strat or his acoustic so the E chord sounded good and inevitably it'd sound awful if...

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In open and regular tunings I tune my 2nd string just a tiny bit flat, or at the low end of "in tune". It compensates for the extra pressure I seem to put on the B-string when playing. That's one of...

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It is interesting how many of us have done this for years and just took it for granted, and here others have done the same thing. I have tuned my low E down a slight bit always also, and sometimes the...

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A lot of electric guitarists do what's known as "spread" tuning... What I do is tune the D string dead on. The low E and A I tune a few cents flat. The G is also just a hair flat. The high B and E, on...

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Hey all,You can compensate a bone saddle for open tuning, keep the stock for reg. tuning and change over when necessary. The open tuning needs the saddle comp. because, in most cases, everything is...

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hey now, I for the last few days have discovered that if I tune eachs tring perfectly when I i play and A chord int he first position the B string doesnt sound quite right. Its too sharp...but when I...

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In another forum, I was turned onto a very informative article from the Guild of American Luthiers at the following link. It explains that guitar intonation (tuning) is always a compromise, and that...

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Beware electronic tuners! Pythagoras discovered that no stringed instruments can be completely in tune in all keys at the same time due to complex harmonic reactions..which needless to say electronic...

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Thanks for all of your comments guys.I have played the majority of my life without an electronic tuner,so I was just a little amazed when my tuner told me that I had been playing some strings...

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Hi,I read the article, printed it out, and spent some time on the tempered interval tuning method, and it took my ear a bit to adjust, but I like the system, always having known that you've got to go...

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