Why Does a Guitar Go Out of Tune?
Important!
A friend of mine once asked me, "How did you come up with this idea?" I simply replied, "I've been playing the guitar for over 60 years and I just got tired of re-tuning my guitar after every song!"
Reynald Chaput
THE TRUTH ABOUT WHY A GUITAR GOES OUT OF TUNE
There are several components of a guitar suspected to be the cause of going out of tune. These include the strings themselves, the tuners, the nut, the bridge, and the tailpiece etc.. Of course, the addition of a whammy bar, or just plain sting stretching has only exacerbated the problem. In addition, during storage, or non-play time, temperature, humidity or simply release of residual stress within the instrument can also render it out of tune.
Sta-Tuned has isolated the most problematic component, the nut, and developed a unique, patent pending solution for maintaining your tuning.
Guitars go out of tune because of various reasons. Owning my own engineering firm for 25 years, I devised a method of dynamically measuring various movements of the components of a guitar. Many of these movements are drastic while some are microscopic. Movement of the strings at the nut of less than the diameter of a hair will render a stringed instrument radically out of tune!
These movements, from large to microscopic were witnessed even with normal play! The more radically a guitar is played such as dive-bombing, the more noticeably out of tune the guitar can become at the end of each song.
These many discoveries have resulted in two new and innovative methods that greatly improve the tuning stability a guitar while performing.
METHOD 1
Method 1 entails insuring that strings be locked to each other so that they do not slip at the nut. The different string friction will prevent each other from moving at the nut. This will eliminate all possible out of tune causes at the head of the guitar, including bad string wrapping, tuning gears, etc..
The Sta-Tuned String-Lock and Fine Tuner system eliminates string movements at the nut that will render your guitar out of tune. Since the system locks the strings that are between the nut and the tuning gears, the need for fine-tuning is absolutely necessary. This is accommodated by the use of our Sta-Tuner technology specifically tailored for the wide variety of guitars on the market, new and old.
METHOD 2
Method 2 is specifically designed for flat top, acoustic guitars and entails an opposing idea. Rather than preventing the strings from moving at the nut, why not allow them to slide more freely through the nut so they can easily return to where they were originally tuned? After much study, the solution came in the form of the patent pending Sta-Tuned String Release. The elegance of this simple device does not require a Fine Tuner and simply clips over the strings. It attaches between the nut and the tuning gears in a matter of seconds.
WHICH METHOD IS BEST FOR ME?
This depends on your instrument. The system consisting of the String Lock and Fine Tuner is the ultimate in performance and quality for electric guitars.
The String Release offers the best tuning stability improvement on the market today for acoustic, flat top guitars and all guitars that have three tuning gears on both sides of the head.
Either system you choose, no alteration to your guitar!!!