I'm finding I'm having problems with tuning the G-String. I've noticed it on two different guitars now, but it seems that the string slips when turning the tuning peg and it takes longer to tune that specific string. Is this normal for guitars? It seems that way for the classical that I just bought today as well.
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1) Make sure it's properly wrapped on the peg, with enough to hold it but not a lot of messy, wadded slack string. See one of the online pictorial how-tos for changing strings.
2) Make sure the string isn't binding in the nut slot. Very common on the third string, especially if you have installed heavier gauge strings. This is an extremely common source of tuning problems that get mistakenly blamed on tuners, and also of string breakage.
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Yep...I'd pretty much say that EVERY guitar I've ever had has some sort of anomoly on the G. I started tuning up on the first fret...the G#...so long ago that it's "just what I do". I dunno why this happens.
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Are we talking acoustic or electric? If acoustic, the core of the "g" is typically the thinnest core of all the strings, but it's wound to give it the proper tone. That might be the cause of what you've noticed.
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Nope...it doesn't seem to matter. Acoustic or electric. But not off by much, in any case...not even up to one beat. In fact, I haven't tuned off an open G in maybe 20 years...it's Second Nature to use the G#...so the logic's lost on me.
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It's happened on all my guitars, acoustic, electric, and recently purchased classical. I thought it was my guitar, I'm glad, well, not really, but you know, that it's not just happening to me.
I appreciate the input, the strings I"m going to change in a bit on my classical, I don't like what came on them, so I'll see what I can do with that.
Appreciate the input everyone!
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This is a common issue that I've done tons of research on. You could also try a wound G string :)
Yep, I have always found in my experience that the G string is the most sensitive as far a tuning goes. Any guitar I've played has been that way. Don't know why.
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Most likely one to break, too.
I think it's kinda on the line between too fat for a plain string and too skinny for a wound one in the range of pitches we use.
(I don't usually call it a G string, because I don't usually have it tuned to G.)
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So I guess I won't worry about it then, it's common, it just.....
Nothin' but a G thang!!! :roll: sorry
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I've noticed this especially with 3 on a side head stocks but it happens on all my guitars to some extent. I try to smooth out the nut so it doesn't bind, lube it or what ever, but I also when tuning give the G string a good bend and recheck before I start playing. This seems to unstick it if has a mind to bind so to speak.
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Hadn't thought about the 3 on a side/ 6 on a side difference, but the third string runs straighter through the nut with 6 on a side. Excellent observation.
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+1 to about what everyone else has been saying. I use a lubricant on my nut grooves whenever I change strings. Big reduction with the problem g-strings sticking-releasing thing.
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Spooky! I mean this G string stuff seems to be endemic...but, no kiddin'...I've NEVER had ANY guitar that the G tuned out the same as the rest of 'em. This is truly weird to see every one else scratchin' the same bit of their noggin' over this.
What the heck... the luniverse is, well, luny!
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