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How To Change Guitar Strings

At some point, all guitarists need to learn how to change the strings on their guitar. Sometimes you'll be forced to change one when a string snaps. But usually, you'll simply want to change them, as strings lose their brightness and wear out.

The amount of time you leave between change strings varies depending on several factors. If you play your guitar regularly, then you might like to change your strings once a week or once a month.

Most Professional guitarists tend to change their strings before each gig. But in the end, it all comes down to a matter of personal preference. Something to bear in mind if you're using your guitar for a gig, is that your strings need a few hours of play to break in properly. During this time, your strings will go out of tune as they stretch so you'll have to retune.

Anyway, here's what you do:
Remove the old strings by detuning the machine heads until the tension becomes loose enough to allow you to pull each string away from the headstock.

Another quick way to remove the old strings is to snip them using a pair of wire cutters. Be very careful if you do it this way, and make sure they are loose, since the bare ends of the strings can be sharp and easily flap around. Bare guitar strings are amongst the many things you DO NOT want to catch in your eye.

How you go about installing your new strings will usually depend on the type of guitar you have, as many guitars have slightly different methods. However, the strings are usually held in place at one end by fixtures behind or on the bridge, and at the other by turning the machine head on the headstock.

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Here's a small insider tip guitarists have been using for years to get more life from your steel strings once you've removed them: Boil them.

Dropping a set of strings into a pan of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes will remove a lot of the grimy build up and bring a new life back to what would otherwise be lifeless strings.

It won't last for very long, and you can't get away with doing it too many times, but it can be an effective temporary measure.

I wouldn't suggest you rely on this technique too much, strings aren't too expensive - and using new strings saves you a lot of hassle.

Regardless of what kind of guitar you have, your strings need to be stretched after you've put them on. When you first tune your guitar, put your hand under each string around the pickup area, pull the string a few centimeters away from the fretboard, then release it. If the pitch has dropped, retune and repeat the process. Keep doing this until all the strings stay in tune.

On most electric guitars the strings are either secured at the bridge end by an independent tailpiece (like most Gibson guitars), or passed through the body of the instrument from the back into an all-in-one bridge unit (like most fender style guitars).

At one end of every steel string, you will find a tiny disc of metal around which one end of the string is wrapped. This is called the ball end.

Take the opposite end of the string and thread it through the fixture at the bridge.

Pull the string through until the ball end stops you from pulling the string any further.

Most electric and steel-string guitars use a similar system for securing strings at the machine head. The capstan to which the string is attached stands out vertically from the headstock. Strings can be passed through a hole in the side of the capstan.

The end is then passed around and under, trapping it in place when the machine head is tightened. Some capstans have vertical slots instead of holes. To use these, cut the string to length, and insert into the tip of the capstan. Then bend the string to one side and wind it around.

This leaves the string endings neat and tidy.
Here's what you do next: Slowly turn the machine head for each string, increasing the tension until the string becomes suitably tight.

To save yourself time and energy, you can use a cheap plastic string winder, which simply fits over the machine head allowing you to crank it along more quickly.

 

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What is the process to change the guitar strings?

Hi friends I have gone through the link suggested by Google for this query

http://www.tictacdo.com/ttd//How_to_change_Guitar_strings

Any idea about this?
And are these steps are right since that is my new guitar and it's costly too.

If you have a steel string acoustic guitar, here is the best help I've ever found on the web:

http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/Musician/Guitar/Setup/SteelStrings/Stringing/ststringing1.html

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How to Change Guitar Strings

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How to Change Guitar Strings For the Classical Guitar

Changing your guitar strings can seem like a difficult task, but it is actually awfully simple. With this article you wil learn how to do so, step by step.

 

First of all, even if you probably know that already, let's remind what each string's notes are. First is low E, second is A, third is D, fourth is G, fifth is B and sixth is high E. There shoud be a notation on the various strings to know where every string should be placed: if there is no indication, the sequence goes from the thickest string to the thinnest.

 

Now that we know the position of each string let's understand how to insert them in the guitar. Let's start first with acoustic guitars, as they are usually more difficult to change the strings. First, cut off the old strings with a pair of scissors, then remove them from the guitar. I recommend in this part to clean well the frets and bridge of your guitar, as it will enhance its performance in the future.

 

We will now explain how to insert one string: once you understand how to do that on one, you can do that again on the others to complete the job. Insert the string in the right hand part of the guitar, if you are right handed (there is a hole a hole in it through which the string should pass). Then turn around the strings to make a knot at least 3 or 4 times to ensure the string does not loosen up. Cut up the excess string coming out from the right end.

 

After that, take the left hand part of the string and run it across the guitar and the bridge and the frets, and insert it into the hole in the knobs at the left hand of the guitar. Be sure not to insert it in the wrong hole. Make a light knot and start turning the knob until the string tenses up. Do not tense it up too much or else it can break.

 

After that, you just need to repeat the process with the other 5 strings. Cut out the excess strings and start tuning the various strings. You can do it with a Guitar Tuning device, with a piano or even by ear if you are advanced enough. After that, you have changed that strings to your guitar successfully! It wasn't that hard, wasn't it?

 

For electric guitar, the process is actually simpler. Electric guitar strings have a little ball at the end that allows you to insert them in the right hand part of the guitar without the need of making a knot. Just slide them in and do as described above for the head of the guitar.

 

As you can see, everyone willing to try can do that easily at home, without the need of spending more money in a shop.

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