learner: replacing a broken guitar string

kierank01

Hi, so I broke the high E string, and am replacing it.

I have put the end of the string into the saddle, and stuck in the peg as far as it will go, and tightened up the string.

I have a tuner, and have tuned it until it reads an e on the tuner, however the string seems much loser than before (playing a D chord sounds terrible)

I presume that I have it an octave lower than it should be, but when I try to tighten the string further, the peg just pops out of the saddle, and I have to try and start again.

What am I doing wrong?

Alanstrainor

kierank01 wrote: »

Hi, so I broke the high E string, and am replacing it.

I have put the end of the string into the saddle, and stuck in the peg as far as it will go, and tightened up the string.

I have a tuner, and have tuned it until it reads an e on the tuner, however the string seems much loser than before (playing a D chord sounds terrible)

I presume that I have it an octave lower than it should be, but when I try to tighten the string further, the peg just pops out of the saddle, and I have to try and start again.

What am I doing wrong?

I'm going to presume this is a steel string acoustic guitar you have here?

Put the end of the string, with the metal ball/piece at the end into the hole where the bridge pin goes. And then insert the pin back in, and keep it tight.

Then you should be able to wind it back up and you're sorted. If you're not sure about tuning, provided your B string is still intact, and relatively in tune, the note should be the note you hear when you play the fifth fret of the B string.

unclebill98

Sometimes the peg holding the string goes in a certain way that allows for the peg to hold the round part of the string.

CianRyan

As above, make sure the groove in the peg is facing the fret board.
If it is and the peg is popping out a bit, just push it back down and continue to tune up.

I've been playing guitar for 10 years and I still can't stand changing my acoustic strings, you're not alone in this.

martinedwards

the ball end of your string isn't placed right.

in the pic below you can see the ball end is twisted towards the soundhole . yours is sitting on the end of the pin so when you tighten it, it pulls the pin out.

bend the string A LITTLE before you put it in.

simples!!



and while mwe're on restringing, look at this to see the BEST way to wind the string on the tuner.

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

kierank01

martinedwards wrote: »

the ball end of your string isn't placed right.

in the pic below you can see the ball end is twisted towards the soundhole . yours is sitting on the end of the pin so when you tighten it, it pulls the pin out.

bend the string A LITTLE before you put it in.

simples!!



and while mwe're on restringing, look at this to see the BEST way to wind the string on the tuner.

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

Got it sorted, thanks. When I changed one string, it sounded so different/better, I went and changed all of the strings