What Do G Strings Look Like
The 5 KEY Specs for Ukulele Strings. When comparing different string packages, there are 5 key things worth considering. Once you’ve found a set of strings you like The only thing left to do is string them up and get back to playing. But take a quick look at how they’re wrapped around the tuning pegs, and it’s obvious why they. During the 1930s, the 'Chicago G-string' gained prominence when worn by performers like Margie Hart. The Chicago area was the home of some of the largest manufacturers of G-strings and it also became the center of the burlesque shows in the United States. The term G-string started to appear in Variety magazine during the 1930s.
I was surprised to find that there aren't any instructables on how to string a guitar. I figured i might as well do it! I got some info about stringing guitars from.
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The last time i used that site was the last time i stringed my guitar, which was almost a year ago! And i play this thing everyday! Look at this picture so you can familiarize yourself with the parts of a guitar if you don't know them already! Things you'll need: @ Wire cutters @ A string winder @ A pack of guitar strings @ A guitar tuner @ A guitar Step 8 should be step 7. I edited my instructable, and now i can't rearrange it for some reason!
Start out by loosening ALL of the strings. If you strung them right in the first place, you should be turning the tuners for the bass strings (the three largest and closest strings to you) and the treble strings (the three thinner strings furthest away from you) to the right to loosen the strings. If you don't have on already, string winders really come in handy! When my parents bought me my first guitar, it came in the pack.
They're only 25 cents to a dollar depending on where you go. It's a good investment if you break your strings a lot. Grab your wire cutters now. Gently grasp onto the base of the round part of the bridge pin. BE CAREFUL as they break easily.i've had bad experiences.i think they're pretty expensive too, especially for a teen like me.
Anyway, being careful to hold the pegs carefully, use the saddle to push down the handles of the wirecutters thereby raising the pegs up and out of the hole that they're in do this for all of the pins and remove the strings while you're at it. Be sure not to do it while the strings are still tense!
Think of it as what you'd do when using a crowbar. Be sure to avoid directly pulling it out if you can, they tend to break when you do that.and the wirecutters or pliers that you're using will dent the pins. Thanks to Laserage for this tip: in the string winder, you might probably find a notch in the end that you can use to pull out the bridge pins and avoid breaking them!
I didn't know what that notch in my spinner was until just now so thanks Laserage! At this point, if you're like me and haven't restrung your guitar in over a year, you'll definitely notice that dust has accumulated. Clean that up! According the the taylorguitars pdf, you can clean the fretboard with 0.0000 gauge steel wool and rub pretty hard without damaging it! Just be EXTRA sure that you don't touch the body and cover the sound hole before you do it. If i owned a Taylor, i doubt i'd even consider rubbing steel wool on it. And also, if you have a guitar wiht a high action, basically, the strings are way high off the fretboard, like my other guitar in the second picture.
This makes it a bit more difficult to play the guitar especially in the higher frets. To fix this, just simply sand it down in tiny increments. Make sure you don't do too much, or the guitar strings might make a rattling sound!
If you messed up or sanded down to much, simply cut small strips of paper and put them under the the saddle until it's at a height you like! Now here's the part you've been waiting for! There's bunches of different ways to do the next few steps, this is just one. Give input if you have any better info! I like to work from closest strings to farthest, 6th to 1st, Low E to high e, Largest to smallest. (they're all the same) 1.Begin by inserting the end with the metal ring into the closest hole where the bridgepins go. (see pictures for clarification) Insert it so that the groove in the bridgepin faces towards the headstock.
Rest it atop to the ring of the string. 2.Push down the bridgepin into the hole, it'll push the string into the hole as well. While doing that, pull the string up.
Again, while pushing the bridgepin down, pull the string up. Before you begin putting strings in, angle the holes in the tuning pegs so they are turned towards the center of the headstock at a 45 degree angle. 1.Pull the 6th string (the largest) across the headstock.
It goes in the bottom left tuning peg. Holding the string taut, cut the string one tuning peg's distance away from the peg that the string will go in (see first picture for clarification). 2.Insert the string into the hole in the peg (see second picture for clarification). Tighten the strings by turning the tuning peg left. (Do this for all the BASS strings) 3. Insert pegs as shown in the previous step, and repeat numbers one and two for the 5th string (second largest string) ///.FYI - You're going to be doing 'stringing the guitar part 1' for all the strings before putting them in tuning pegs /// 4.Now the 4th string is where the confusion comes in. You'll notice that there's no peg for you to measure one tuning peg's distance!
You need not fear, my friend, for all you have to do is hold the string right behind the tuning peg for the 4th string (third largest string) and while holding it in the same spot, move your hand to the 5th tuning peg. Now you can use the 4th tuning peg to measure one tuning peg's distance!
(see pictures 3-5 for clarification) ///.FOR ALL THE BASS STRINGS, YOU ARE GOING TO WANT TO HAVE 2-3 WRAPS AROUND THE TUNING PEG ///. 5.We now come to yet another confusing peg: the 3rd tuning peg. For the last three strings (the treble strings) rather than measuring one tuning peg's distance, you're going to want to measure 1.5 tuning peg's distance. So for the 3rd tuning peg, do what you did in 4. Of the last step, but rather than moving your hand to the 5th tuning peg, or in this case, the 2nd tuning peg, move your hand to the 1st tuning peg and measure 1.5 tuning peg's distance from there. Tighten the TREBLE strings by turning the pegs AWAY from the top of the headstock, in other words, to the RIGHT.
Do the same with the next two strings. AND FOR THE TREBLE STRINGS, YOU ARE GOING TO WANT 5-6 WRAPS AROUND THE TUNING PEGS (see last picture for clarification) (People will have different opinions about this, so be sure to give input.) Keep the bottom-most wraps of the treble strings below the edge of the tuner holes to avoid creating a kink, which could break the string. A few things I have found over the years.1. Especially if you are going to be playing 'for real' in a short period you do NOT want to loosen all the strings. Do one string at a time, start to finish. The tuning of the strings depends upon the tension on the neck. If you loosen all the strings, put on new ones, then start tuning, what happens is that with every string you tune, more tension gets put on the neck, bowing it, and every string you have already tuned goes flat.
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It can take between 3-7 tunings before they all stay in tune doing it that way. Better if you do each string by itself, remove the low E, put the new one on, tug a few times and tune, tug a few more times and tune again, then move to the 'A' and repeat until you've done all the strings. At this point, get your heaviest gauge pick and 'hammer' a few chords, then re-tune and repeat. It takes about 1/2 the time of replacing all strings at once then trying to get them all to stay tuned. I have done this a number of times just hours before a concert and had no trouble with my guitar (6 or 12 string) going out of tune on me even after an hour of playing.2. In step 3 you mention putting strips of paper under the saddle.
While that would work just fine for an electric. Or for an electric acoustic when plugged in, it will reduce the overall volume and tonal quality when playing straight acoustic. The saddle is what transfers the vibration of the strings to the bridge/bracing and thus to the soundboard. Strips of paper, being soft and cushiony (compared to the bone ((quality guitars)) or hard plastic ((not so quality guitars)) of the saddle) tend to absorb and muffle the vibration of the strings and can make a great guitar sound like a cheap-o. Better to buy a new saddle (they're not that expensive) and carefully, VERY carefully, sand it down to where it needs to be.
If you can't afford even the small cost of a new saddle, then once you have your slivers of paper, soak them cyanoacrylate (superglue) and attach them to the saddle (try not to attach your fingers while you are at it).The super glue will thicken them up a bit, so when you are done you will have to (VERY carefully) sand them back down to the proper height. The hardened cyanoacrylate will transfer vibration almost as good as bone saddle will and you won't lose/muffle the sound the way you would with just plain strips of paper.Other than those few minor things, I love your post, although I was always taught 2-3 wraps for all strings. Then again, I have always guessed at where to start to get the right number of wraps and have had anywhere from 1 (low E) to 10 (high E) and never really noticed a lot of difference.
With your post, I can now get a consistent number of wraps every time, something I have never accomplished in over 20 years. What you do to improve or change the playability will depend on the current state of the guitar. If the neck - viewed along its length from the saddle to the nut - is slightly curved up, this is probably OK and the truss rod shouldn't be tightened to lower the action, as the neck could end up hogged.
The tension in the rod only counteracts string tension to achieve an ideal neck shape/profile. In this case where the neck shape is ideal/OK and the action still too high when the strings are fully tensioned, lowering the saddle would be the way to go, I reckon. In the case where the neck's noticeably bent upwards to the nut, then tightening the rod would be the first thing to do followed by any adjustment to the saddle to get the action according to preference.
I found this on:Since the 19th century, the term geestring referred to the string which held the loincloth of Native Americans and later referred to the narrow loincloth itself. William Safire in his Ode on a G-String quoted the usage of the word 'G-string' for loincloth by Harper's Magazine 15 years after John Hanson Beadle's 1877 usage and suggested that the magazine confused the word with the musical term G-string (i.e., the string for the G note). This is apocryphal, as the narrowest string on a violin is the E string.Safire also mentions the opinion of linguist Robert Hendrickson that G (or gee) stands for groin, which was a taboo word at the time.Cecil Adams, author of the blog The Straight Dope, has proposed an origin from 'girdle-string', which is attested as early as 1846.HistoryThe G-string first appeared in costumes worn by showgirls in Earl Carroll's productions during the 1920s, a period known as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties. Linguist Robert Hendrickson believes that the 'G' stands for 'groin'.
The Oxford English Dictionary reports that the G-string was originally a narrow strip of fabric worn by Indian women. During the Depression, a 'G-string' was known as 'the gadget', a double-entendre that referred to a handyman's 'contrivance', an all-purpose word for the thing that might 'fix' things.
During the 1930s, the 'Chicago G-string' gained prominence when worn by performers like Margie Hart. The Chicago area was the home of some of the largest manufacturers of G-strings and it also became the center of the burlesque shows in the United States.