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10-28-2003, 03:29 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | How high can I tune this sucker?
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I've got a Warr 8 string, and I am experimenting with tuning. I'm going for FCGDAEBF#, but I can't get the F# up to pitch before the string pops. I'm using an .008. Daddario makes a .007. Is it possible to tune a .007 up to an F# at a 34" scale?
Last edited by basstriaxis : 10-28-2003 at 03:34 PM.
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10-28-2003, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | | Looking at your long list of pedals and effects, perhaps no one will be able to tell that it's out of tune.
Just kidding. |
10-28-2003, 05:42 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Hehe... but I will be able to tell it is out of tune. Ever seen Nigel Tufnel's guitar solo that he does with the violin? Classic.  |
10-28-2003, 10:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: montreal, qc, Canada | | | Well, a smaller gauge string feels looser than a heavier gauge string tuned to the same note (example, A). So I guess a smaller gauge string can tune higher before snapping. I'm just assuming, it's worth a try I guess. |
10-28-2003, 10:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | How high can you tune it? As high as you like. If you're on a plane for example, you'd be tuning it pretty high. Or perhaps tune it on the top of a mountain - that's pretty high too.
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10-28-2003, 10:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Wow.... getting alot of really informative posts here 
I was asking if anybody knows if a .007 string can be tuned to a high F# at a 34" scale. Does anybody have some real info to share?  |
10-30-2003, 08:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | having no experience with any string lighter than a .040, i can only tell you that you'll be able to tune the .007 higher than the .008. can't comment on whether it'll be able to get to F though.
what brand of string are you using now? it seems possible that different brands may have different tensions (or at least different tensile strength) even if you're dealing with the same gauge... |
10-30-2003, 09:36 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | I'm using Daddarios right now. |
10-30-2003, 09:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: North Kingstown, Rhode Island | | Quote: Originally posted by basstriaxis
Hehe... but I will be able to tell it is out of tune. Ever seen Nigel Tufnel's guitar solo that he does with the violin? Classic. | That was the greatest part in that movie! |
11-05-2003, 08:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Mesa/Boogie - Shop Manager/Tech, SF Guitarworks | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA | | It's official: you can't tune a .007 to F# on a 34" scale. Guess I have to do a D instead.  |
11-05-2003, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Charlottesville, VA | | | but now we know.
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