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Regarding the "settling in" process, with both bass and guitar
I've found that a great deal depends on how you wind it on the post.
I can minimize the "stretch" by using the "first-wind knot" method.
(OK, I don't know what it's really called but I'm sure there are
a bunch of youtube demos of it.)

I too have been playing bass for a long time.
I have flat wounds on my 1976 Fender Precision and I keep them clean.
I've only changed them once, and I like the sound I'm getting.

LLOYD S



YES!

The string wrap around the post is very important, should have the "lockstitch" at top, and all windings should be concentric and even, in a row, not overlapping each other at all, like cable on a windlass.

Most who talk of string "stretch" are really referring to the slippage of the string on the post, which is far more able to detune the string to the flat side than any anmount of stretch in the string's material, the only exception to this would be the nylon strings, which do stretch quite a bit when first installed.

It is indeed possible to string a guitar - properly - and have it STAY IN TUNE from the start, it does not take days or weeks of "string stretching".


Good point.


--Mac

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