Okay, so I’ve changed the strings on my Ovation acoustic numerous times, and have NEVER had the issue I had tonight.
So, I changed my strings and thus began tuning via my chromatic tuner pedal. Oddly, when I’d pluck a string and just let it right out it was super wonky. It was like.... “hey girl, this is an A...ohnope it’s a B...no!!!!! It’s an F !!!”
Lol.
So I’m like ....okay.... Let’s stretch the strings
The stretching commenced.
Try again.
okay....we are
getting an actual note now!!!
All was fine and dandy until I got to my high E string and then..... it broke....scaring the shit out of me (literally, I had heart palpitations as I’ve NEVER broken a string before) and some slight damage to my hand lmao.
Wth went wrong ?!?!
The obvious answer is it was wound too tightly, but that’s not the case. What else should I be looking for ?
As I’ve said, I’ve changed the strings on this particular guitar many times and have never had this issue.