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Guitar Out Of Tune?
Real Guitar Nut Solutions With No Alterations To Your Guitar
To Help The Guitar Stay In Tune
Eliminate Guitar Nut Tuning Problems
Going out of tune while you're playing is 90% of the time caused by a problem with the nut of your guitar. We solve the nut problem which automatically solve all the other problems at the head of the guitar like the nut slots, locking tuners, how you wind your strings, pinging etc.
Improve Your Guitar Tuning Stability While Playing Music
If you do a Google search for "stay in tune" you will find over 45,000,000 websites that mostly complain about " Why my guitar won't stay in tune?". Well, that is most likely because the people that developed these websites have their own opinions.
So I thought that I would voice my engineering opinion also, since I have been playing the guitar for over 68 years.
I have heard that one of the signs of getting old is when you have most of the answers and nobody asks the questions!
Practice The Tune, Not The Tuning
How the Ideas Came About
The Problem Is At The Nut
The nut on a guitar is the most likely place that causes you to go out of tune while you are playing.
If you prevent the strings from moving at the nut, you are eliminating all possible friction to occur which is the main cause of going out of tune. This will give you the best chance to stay in tune.
A String Lock will also eliminate the following things at the head that could cause a guitar not to stay in tune.
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Changing string gauges
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Improper cut nut slots
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Graphite or pencil lead
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String hold down bars
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Improper string winding
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Changing tuning gears
This is the test instrument that I used when I then found that if a string moves at all at the nut by the smallest amount like .001 In. (1/3 of a hair), the tonality of the string varies by one fret or 1/2 a tone. So, very little string movement causes a large out of tune condition to occur.
You will notice in this picture that the String Release forces the strings to move straight through the nut which eliminates the string binding and the extra friction that it was producing at the nut. This allows the strings to return to where they belong. IN TUNE! "at least for the evening"
The String Lock above totally prevents the strings from moving microscopically at the nut. The strings are always moving at the nut when you play and more so when you use a Vibrato or whammy bar. This is the main reason why guitars won't stay in tune while you play. Once you clamp all your strings to each other, you can no longer tune your guitar with your standard tuners, so you must have a Fine Tuner specifically designed for your guitar mounted at the tail end. Re-tuning still must be done when the temperature changes.
This Jazz guitar set-up as you can see needs a specially designed Fine Tuner that mounts to the strings behind the bridge.
All of our Sta-Tuned Products are designed to be installed on 6 string guitars with no alteration of your guitar to preserve it's value.
