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tgchan
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tgchan
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07/28/2020 8:43 pm

Thank you for replies~!!

There's lots of misleading information floating on the internet and one of those information was

"since 9s have less tension than 10s you have to push/bend them more to get to the same pitch as e.g. 10s"

Which makes sense as well somehow lol because of higher basic/starting tension you may think it needs less physical movement to get into a correct pitch.

Something like; since it has higher tension it will go quicker to X pitch with less movement/bend/ =

Tighter = more sensitive to little movements kind of thing.

But yea... I have tested 10s on Fender, 9s on Gibson, and 8s on Fender and the travel distance looks almost identical/can't tell it apart.

Of course you guys are right that only what you hear really counts, no matter what and how you bend but...

Because of super short fingers, I've got my guitar up my neck and went all the way to 8s to be able to play comfortably and ijnury free.

Forget wrapping thumb. Classical hand position is all I've got ;)

I've been doing a serious mistake of partialy bending only because I thought it's enough (+ it was really hard to push more). Now that I have checked (better late then never...) how a full step bend look/sounds like... it quite shocked me that I have to push a string that far. I was already familar with opinions thay lighter strings require more physical travel etc. but I have tested it only yesterday and I was shocked again lol

No difference bettwen string gauges or even guitar scales+strings in a distance/travel of a string to a desired pitch of a HALF STEP and a WHOLE STEP bends... or at least not visible one to me because of very close one/.

Gibson scale vs Fender scale even with Gibson(9s) Fender(10s) the travel distance seams to be identical as well.

Tested with tuner and reference notes E( B string freted on the5th ) vs E( G string freted on the 7th & bent to a whole stop)[br][br][br]"With that in mind, given that the guitar's scale does differ and the amount of travel on a neck changes due to the scale, the amount of a bend does change due to scale." - not in my test or it was so small it was hard to notice.

Some more opinions I've encountered:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1345339

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guitar/comments/3ovsjm/question_on_bending_and_string_gauge/

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/34610/string-gauge-and-bending