You can even go one step further: when you first restring your guitar, grab each string at the mid-point, which is the 12th fret, and give it a few good hard yanks away from the guitar ... you can usually pull it out a couple of inches. Of course, don't pull so hard you rip the bridge off, or slice your fingers off, but a good firm tug. What this does is stretch the string quickly rather than have it stretch over a few days, which is what happens. Also, if your strings are pegged into the bridge, it will ensure that the ball end of the string is right up against the end of the peg, secure right from word go. There's nothing worse than having a string all of a sudden give way and loosen because it's finally decided to seat itself properly under the bridge pegs.
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