Re: Going out of tune unevenly
Originally Posted by
Strabo
Why would the lower-pitch strings change more than the higher strings?
The higher strings are nearer to their breaking tension (remember breaking a string on tuning up? always the E). Near the breaking point, the same change in stretched length makes less tension change and thus pitch change (again:remember breaking a string on tuning up? just before the string broke, pitch ceased changing). Steel behaves like that when it passes from elastic deformation into plastic deformation; this is, btw, the reason why tuning up and detuning a string repeatedly makes it more prone to breaking.
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