How to Restring an Acoustic Guitar
How to Restring an Acoustic Guitar 1. Place the guitar in a safe stable position, preferably in a neck cradle. Loosen the strings a good dozen turns or so. String winders are very helpful for this stage of the restring. Be prepared for the occasional string breakage that happens with the release of tension. Safety glasses are always a good idea or at least make sure not to have your eyes near the headstock when either tightening or releasing the tension on a string. Some players refrain from loosening and...
Read MoreHow to Store a Guitar
How to Store a Guitar Once a person owns a guitar, care and upkeep are the next learning experience for any player. Earlier we discussed when to change strings, what type of strings to use, breaking guitar strings and so on. The most important thing you can do for your guitar is to limit the temperature and moisture changes it is exposed to. If your guitar could speak it would cry out against these injustices! It is up to us to treat our guitar as a friend. The first change that guitars go through is from the...
Read MoreHow to Hold Your Guitar
How to Hold Your Guitar There is a guitar stand out there that holds your guitar in the playing position so you can just walk right up to it and play without having to strap your guitar on. I’m guessing though that if you play guitar, you hold it yourself and play either standing up or sitting down! How you hold and play your guitar can affect your playing (and your body) over the longevity of your playing life. There is a trend of some guitarists and bassists who slinging their instruments as low as they can to...
Read MoreThings About Strings, Part III – What Type of Guitar Strings Should I Use?
What Type of Guitar Strings Should I Use? So this is our third blog on strings. We first talked about how to know when it is time to change your strings, then dealing with the inconvenience of a broken string, and now I will write about what brand, type and size of strings to use. Strings are sometimes specific to the guitar so knowing the type of guitar you have is important. If the guitar you play has a sound hole of some type where the sounds of the vibrating strings bounce around inside the guitar and then...
Read MoreThings About Strings…Part II
Broken Guitar Strings TWANG! It is a surprise when you are playing or tuning your guitar and a string breaks – it is sudden, final and not always the most convenient timing! Thankfully the price of a single string or a new set is fairly economical and the biggest hurdle is traversing to your local music store to get the replacement(s) you need. A way to avoid this inconvenience is to have a back up set or sets with your guitar at all times. How many back up strings (or sets) to have on hand depends on how...
Read MoreThings About Strings…Part I
Things About Strings When to Change Your Guitar Strings Of all the reasons we may pick up an acoustic guitar and strum it, the most obvious reason is to hear the tones that emanate from it. Each guitar, with different shapes, sizes and tone woods, produces unique tones. But no matter the design of your guitar, one of the easiest ways to bring your guitar back to life is to change your strings often. Our hands generally have oils, dirt, and sometimes a corrosive aspect to guitar strings that comes from your unique...
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