New guitar question.

Hi Kenny,

I am 99.9% certain your guitar was not tuned an octave higher, neither the strings or guitar would stand the strain. You would also be able to sing just the same with an unstrument pitched exactly one octave higer. If your fingers will allow, put a capo on the 12th fret and play an easy song that you know and you will see.

If you play your lower E string open, followed by the 4th string on the second fret, followed by the high e string open. You have just played E over a two octave range and if you listed to the difference in the pitch of each note I think you will understand how big a difference an octave is.

Unfortunately the easy to have found out where it was pitched would have been to compare the two guitars before the re-tuning but we cannot turn the clock back.

I am at a loss to explain why it showed OK against the tuner the at the first checking though. If there were damage to the guitar I think you would have noticed it by now so you probably just have strings that are nicely pre-stretched and will hold their tuning fine.

Roger

Kap,
what I think your guitar was, was not tuned an octave higher ( just like roger said) I tihnk it would be called tuned a key higher, like one note higher.

I never read Roger's reply to you thoroughly so he might already have said this.
In the shop it probably was not tuned with a tuner, the strings were probably all tuned into each other but not in concert pitch.

Some groups I think tune up, like yours was. And I know certainly bands such as Guns'n;roses  jimmy hendrix tune down ( tning a key or note down) so the E string ends up playing the note D or maybe D# ( thats the bit I am not too sure about)

Ken

The guitar is defective.  Send it to me and buy yourself another.

- Zurf

Might check your tuner to make sure it's set for 440. Some tuners have different tuning ranges and some can adjust.  See your instruction manual for the tuner and might need to reset it...

Thats probably what it was.Some rotten in store *%&$%$&^*)@$ worker trying to give me a heart attack.
Thanks all
KAP54

Sorry Zurf.... I would like to but.........I think I'm in love with it. 

Kenny