G-string detuning..

Chaotic Kittie · #1 October 30th, 2006

My G-string is detuning all the time. I don't even have to bend it or anything, it still detunes... and it's ONLY the g-string, all the others stay perfectly in tune!

Any ideas on what can cause this?

cshude · #2 October 30th, 2006

a bum tuning machine, perhaps? Has is only been recently that it has been doing this? If so, I would suspect that it may be the string itself, or that maybe in installing the string, it got overlapped on the capstan? Those would be my guesses.

D-Dawn · #3 October 30th, 2006

I have one guitar that does this as well..just on the G tho. Bad tuning machine perhaps as I string my own and never have probs with any other guitar in the house.

Chaotic Kittie · #4 October 30th, 2006

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Originally Posted by D-Dawn

I have one guitar that does this as well..just on the G tho. Bad tuning machine perhaps as I string my own and never have probs with any other guitar in the house.

I guess that's what it is here too... because it has been like this before too, not just after the latest restringing. Any ideas on what I can do about it, or will I have to turn it it in? :/

Rockerbob · #5 October 30th, 2006

A bad tuning machine makes it hard to get in tune, but for one to slip is rare. More often it is string installation or binding in the nut that causes this type of problem.

Chaotic Kittie · #6 November 4th, 2006

Ok, now I've noticed more: It doesn't detune itself just out of nowhere... but I just rub the tuning peg a LITTLE bit to fine tune, it wants to detune after that. Then I can tune back up again, and NP.. until it detunes a little bit again, so I have to fine tune, and then it goes down like a whole note.

Ultimate Garage Band · #7 November 7th, 2006

are you saying it goes down a whole note at the tuning key? Does the key actually turn? Do the windings slip on the post?

737blues · #8 November 7th, 2006

Are you saying that you tuned up to pitch, then at some point maybe tuned down a little bit but after playing for a while the pitch suddenly drops? If so, that would make me think your string is binding in the nut. Sometimes rubbing a bit of pencil on it can help, at least for a quick temporary fix until you can get it looked at by a techie. You should always do your fine tuning up to pitch.

bugly · #9 January 7th, 2007

nothing worse than a loose gString (sorry someone had to say it)

Matty22 · #10 January 7th, 2007

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Originally Posted by bugly

nothing worse than a loose gString (sorry someone had to say it)

I was just SO going to reply to that, but couldnt find a safe way to word it with out getting myself banned