Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar
This is really cool.<p>If your main focus is to teach people how to tune a guitar, you should consider mentioning that you always want to tune a sharp guitar string to slightly below the correct pitch and then tune it up.<p>Any slack present in the string winding can cause the string to go out of tune easily if you loosen the string to the correct tension. Tightening to the correct tension doesn&#x27;t have that problem.<p>If your guitar has locking tuners, this isn&#x27;t necessary because there is no string winding and therefore no slack. For anyone who doesn&#x27;t know, a locking tuner clamps down onto the string to hold it in place instead of having the string wound around it.<p>This picture is of a locking set of tuners. The person is about to press down the locking mechanism for the low E string to hold it in place. Note that the other strings have no winding around the peg.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prsguitars.com&#x2F;csc&#x2F;tuners&#x2F;lock_4.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prsguitars.com&#x2F;csc&#x2F;tuners&#x2F;lock_4.jpg</a><p>Most guitars don&#x27;t come with locking tuners but I would recommend that everyone use them because they make changing strings so much easier.<p>Anyways, I really like your web page. Cool stuff.