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FAQ, Lots blame their tuners, there is more going on, like heat & moisture changing the wood, swelling it..
... for example by holding it,Your breath, Summer humidity etc.
& short scale makes a...

Stew Mac has measured dimensioned drawings of all their tuners --- match the dimensions?


A good way to go, as an old mechanic
who did not get to transition from pencil on paper,
to CAD,...

Shakespeare - Romeo & Juliet do Rene Descarte? to be Y/N?

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Breaking the ball out of Guitar Strings, is a useful skill, to get Loop Ends

+1) Mariachi strap - I.e. hooks into the soundhole and cord goes under and behind , and a loop goes over your head.
But sitting in a chair behind your music sheets on the stand seems more...

Short attention span? play as long as it lasts, then come back later for a little longer ... tunes may only last 3 minutes any way.:whistling:

I don't see them broken off, in that picture ... hardly bent...
what's the problem with bending them down, carefully?

100 years on the original Gibson tailpiece is fine ...
Have you bent the...

Only answers from someone owning both would be a meaningful opinion -

You must be very patient until that person sees this topic.

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So another discussion about preamps that get called DI's

To be accurate Direct Input [DI] converts a high level signal like an electric guitar to a microphone like signal
to then feed the...

My friend John likes wearing broad brimmed hats because his hearing, playing,
is better wearing it and having the reflected sound directed into his ears ..

Just some of the side effects of...

I simply treat the plastic picks like fingernails and use the same tools on them...
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I love seeing how hard a powered buffing wheel can fling things across the room...

BBC news TV had a Shane Macgowan song filled funeral for the late Pogues singer-songwriter...
https://www.shanemacgowan.com/

I Expect it was a Business Decision ....
I personally never got an hour out of those super thin core wire
wound & Ground flat bronze A strings, before they broke...

No shops for anything but craft brewed beer out here..

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Car, insurance and gasoline cost has not absorbed that?

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a vote for Evan J Marshall...

How about one of Rode's battery powered condenser mics , versatile for either with or without Phantom power..

Many years ago , I got one from my local instrument repair guy .. 2 kinds; buckle on .. inline or at right angles to the handle.
dependant on your case fittings .. his supplier had a paper printed...

A=440 tuning fork gets the A string on pitch ..
I press its base against my bridge to amplify its sound output, while vibrating,
That's how its done...

then use octaves & unison fretted notes...

Half round and flat wound strings are & have been a thing for decades... ~o)

John Pearse string wizard .. is already made https://www.elderly.com/products/john-pearse-string-wizard /

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My A4 had a pre centenary re fret in time for last year..

Ones with a 1/4" input can take a Piezo clip, plug in .. then you clip it to the bridge, temporarily, while you tune.

Banjo players use these , on their bridges.

I used that to clip tuner...

Sell things I haven't used/played for a couple years? :confused:

in a Loud band solid body magnetic pickup Mandolin offers feedback suppression.