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Tele coming out of tune.
I have had a re-curring problem lately. My Telecaster keeps coming out of tune, and by alot, sometimes by a semi-tone. I don't know why, its only been happening since I put new strings on it, 2 weeks ago. I have been using the same strings for about 2 years now, so I don't think its the strings. Any suggestions?
# 1
I'll risk asking a couple of stupid questions here...
Did you strech the strings when you installed them?
Do you have a lot of turns of string on the tuning machine posts?
Have you looked at the older threads on this same topic?
Did you strech the strings when you installed them?
Do you have a lot of turns of string on the tuning machine posts?
Have you looked at the older threads on this same topic?
# 2
yes i stretched the strings, about 4 or 5 turns, and didn't think of searching for the same topic.
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# 3
Post again later, if you still need some help. :)
# 4
What kind of Tele is it? Does it have a Vintage 3 saddle bridge? (3 saddles for your strings instead of 1 saddle for each string)? If you have the 3 saddle tele bridge (quite popular) then good luck keeping it in tune. That means 2 strings are sharing 1 saddle. Vintage Tele's are notorious for sounding like they are out of tune.
# 5
No, there are 6 saddles. It did it again today. I was playing it came out of tune, enough to notice. I retuned it(specifically the B string) and not 2 seconds later, the string dropped about 3 octaves. I have no ideas.
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# 6
Originally posted by Tele Master3 octaves??!!!!
... I retuned it(specifically the B string) and not 2 seconds later, the string dropped about 3 octaves...
If this is just happening one the B string, I suspect the string is slipping on the tuning peg. If the string is wrapped across itself, but it has broken, or come out of the hole in the peg, it might behave the way you describe.
# 7
Sounds like the string is slipping around the old tuning post to me too, time to take a look at how you are stringing that tele up, if you want to do a little test, tune it up and mark the string with a marking pencil right at the place the last wind comes off the post, play it until you lose tuning and take a look at where the mark is, if it has moved any then you have a slippage problem, another thing you might want to check for is slack storage, tele's have those string trees's that will some times hang the string up, when you tune always go from low to high, ie.. tune the e string up from D# to E not from F down to E, and when you tune up grab the string at about the 12th fret and pull it out and away from the fretboard, this pulls that stored slack out of the pinch point wherever it may be, I take this is mainly a problem you are having with the unwound strings?......................
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