Valerie
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My G-string has always played a little sharp. I mean, I can tune open to G, but from the 1st fret up it goes sharp (and is horribly sharp by the 4th fret.) The 12th fret (according to my chromatic tuner) is just barely recognizable as "g".
Anyways, so about a week ago I sanded down my saddle to lower the action and I was sooo happy because all of a sudden my G string was in tune! (yay!)
But that was because the G string kept on going flat (and thus everything else was no longer sharp...)
Now that the strings have settled down the same old problem has returned.
Anyone know a way to fix this? All other strings ring true.
I'm wondering if I should switch to low G strings (now that I've two ukes I was going to change one out to low G anyways...)
Would that help? I've also got a little strip of hard plastic that came with the saddle when I first bought the uke (and then took out from under the saddle...) But I thought raising the saddle up raised the pitch... Anyways, am I mistaken? Should I put that back under the saddle?
I know things like this have been asked before, but I feel like my personal frustration makes me special.
Anyways, so about a week ago I sanded down my saddle to lower the action and I was sooo happy because all of a sudden my G string was in tune! (yay!)
But that was because the G string kept on going flat (and thus everything else was no longer sharp...)
Now that the strings have settled down the same old problem has returned.
Anyone know a way to fix this? All other strings ring true.
I'm wondering if I should switch to low G strings (now that I've two ukes I was going to change one out to low G anyways...)
Would that help? I've also got a little strip of hard plastic that came with the saddle when I first bought the uke (and then took out from under the saddle...) But I thought raising the saddle up raised the pitch... Anyways, am I mistaken? Should I put that back under the saddle?
I know things like this have been asked before, but I feel like my personal frustration makes me special.
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