Listen to the sustain… It’s a highly revered quality, the ability to sustain for ages. But what happens if something might impact that sustain, and how useful a characteristic is sustain anyway?
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Is it necessary to drop a guitar’s tuning to prevent its neck from bowing or deforming under string tension? Should we tune lower and use a capo to preserve our guitar necks?
The answer is no. Mostly. Read on…
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Where to start? This is one of the weirder things that’s happened me. There are some photos – not massively gory but, if you’re squeamish, you might give this one a miss.
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Guitar and bass strings can exert hundreds of pounds of tension on a guitar neck. So, it makes sense to slacken off the strings when you're not using the instrument, right?
Maybe not…
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