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The Old Ironing Board Trick

#161
Okay somebody get to the bottom of this.

Somebody lay their bass flat without the headstock or any part of the neck touching the surface it's laying on and tune the bass.

Then take the bass and put it on standing up as if you were going to play, and check the tuning.

Did the strings go tad flat ? If not you probably got a good stable neck. If they did go a bit flat, not so much.

I would check myself but I don't care :cool:
 
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lowplaces said:
Okay somebody get to the bottom of this.

Somebody lay their bass flat without the headstock or any part of the neck touching the surface it's laying on and tune the bass.

Then take the bass and put it on standing up as if he were going to play, and check the tuning.

Did the strings go tad flat ? If not you probably got a good stable neck. If they did go a bit flat, not so much.

I would check myself but I don't care :cool:
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I can tell you it doesn't matter: On some parts I play my bass vertical, not for posing, but to have some movement for my back to not get another lumbago from playing too long in the same position. And it stays in tune - or I just refuse to recognise any detune subconsciously... may very well be so :D

Same for violin, by the way. Yet, violin string have lesser mass, and aren't affected that much by gravity, I guess... ^^
 
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More than 5 cents? Because any less than that and you're not going to feel it in the string tension and action, and you'd barely hear it either.

Did you fret the note or play a 12th fret harmonic? Because you may be putting more pressure on the string in the different positions. Harmonic should stay the same.
 
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Omega Monkey said:
More than 5 cents? Because any less than that and you're not going to feel it in the string tension and action, and you'd barely hear it either.

Did you fret the note or play a 12th fret harmonic? Because you may be putting more pressure on the string in the different positions. Harmonic should stay the same.
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I just checked open strings. Nothing touched the neck. Again, I can't quantify it because my tuner doesn't do that.
 
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fakeneckplate'65 said:
I don't know how your paticular technique varies, but, if I push the neck of my guitar, the strings are going flat 10/10 times. Unless, of course, you play guitar with the strings facing towards your body. :)
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A neck can be pushed in more than one direction ... perhaps what I call push you call pull
 
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