Re: The Loar losing tune quickly
There's also the angled peghead issue, where the front and back of the peghead are not parallel but get narrower to each other at the top and sometimes the tuner pegs are not square to front of peghead and bind on the bushings. Just something to check for.
In general, if each string has a couple wraps above the hole in the tuner peg and 3+ wraps below, it shouldn't be slipping. Some people advocate stretching new strings when you install them, you can do this just by tuning them a half step or a little more above concert pitch and then to concert pitch, I think that's gentler than pulling them way off the fingerboard which I've seen people do. Just don't stretch the E's aggressively!
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