Woe! Well, no.

[whatho]

It's not woe, it's just confusion. The G on my guitar, which is currently tuned to DADGAD ( or is supposed to be), has spontaneously dropped down to an E without anybody's actually having touched it. Now it spells DADEAD. This is wrongness. Well, actually it now spells DADFAD because I tuned it up one note before I realised just how far it had dropped. I don't want to risk tuning it back up in case the string's gone weird and is going to snap in my face, which I hate slightly.

Anyone who knows anything technical about guitars and strings and FREAKINESS is more than welcome to counsel me sagely.

Comments

[jendleberry.livejournal.com]

In my experience string tend to do freaky things because of temparature changes, or occasionally just because they feel like it. You're probably safe to tune it back up as long as you do it gradually, although I accept no responsibility if it all goes wrong - all I know about guitars is that they have too many strings for my liking.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I did tune it back up eventually, in stages, with a lot of eye-closing and face-turning and running away in between. It seems pretty much okay now. I can't imagine why a single string would drop two tones while the others held, though. It was very weird. Guitar strings are quite scary beasts.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

The imp is a fiend.