Re: trying to understand a guitar neck problem

On 2007-05-31, Seb <sebastien.lapierre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

On my acoustic, when perfectly tuned, I loose the tuning when putting
a capo. I have to adjust the low E string (lower it a bit) for the
tuning to be ok again, and do the opposite when I remove the capo.

What's wrong with my guitar/neck? What can I do?

Are you putting the capo just behind the fret, or halfway between the
frets? I find that placing the capo close behind the fret causes less
pitch shift.


--
John
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do
something we'd all love one another. - Frank Zappa
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