RH & String Pitch Change

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mudpuppy55	RH & String Pitch Change	Lead	[-]
(05/28/09 4:32 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None This is more of a comment of a realization rather than a question, so please excuse me. Here in Southeast Michigan we're experiencing an unusually high level of humidity in the air. Currently it's averaging about 85%. I've seen many discussions here about how heavy humidity can "un-tune" a guitar, and I've seen it happen a little now and again here at home. But just now I picked up my '55 00-17 which has been sitting out on a stand for about two days. One strum and I could tell it wasn't close, so I clamped on a tuner. Every string was almost exactly a 1/2 step higher. I've never seen such a dramatic change in pitch in such a short span of time, and all due to weather. Ya learn somethin' new every day. Necturus maculosus (A.K.A. mudpuppy) Chuck, Mi.
McCawber		#1	[-]
(05/28/09 8:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Wow! I lived in Florida for nine years and constantly took guitars to outdoors festivals and back into air conditioning and never experienced anything like that! Florida humidity was often in the nineties in the long summers. McCawber "We are all bozos on this bus . . . " 1967 D-28 (Still on warranty . . . . ) // 1988 Guild J-65-12 // 2003 D-42 // 2004 J-41 Special // 2006 D-18GE burst // 2004 LX1 // 2006 HD-28V burst // 1968 home made Mastertone (Yeah, a banjo) // 2007 Stelling Bellflower // HJ-40 (under construction) // Another flamed maple Mastertone style (under construction) // 2006 Epiphone Mando
mudpuppy55		#2	[-]
(05/29/09 9:24 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Strangely, it happened again later last night. My formica Martin always sits out and was hanging in our bedroom. I grabbed it to run a few scales before going to sleep. Again it was nearly a full 1/2 step high. Do you think they know were in Michigan and they're just messing w/me? Necturus maculosus (A.K.A. mudpuppy) Chuck, Mi.
McCawber		#3	[-]
(05/29/09 10:38 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That IS bizarre! I do thing the guitar gods are messing around with you. To me it doesn't make sense that humidity could ever effect a Formica guitar. I'm totally clueless. (Which is not the first time . . . . ) McCawber "We are all bozos on this bus . . . " 1967 D-28 (Still on warranty . . . . ) // 1988 Guild J-65-12 // 2003 D-42 // 2004 J-41 Special // 2006 D-18GE burst // 2004 LX1 // 2006 HD-28V burst // 1968 home made Mastertone (Yeah, a banjo) // 2007 Stelling Bellflower // HJ-40 (under construction) // Another flamed maple Mastertone style (under construction) // 2006 Epiphone Mando
mudpuppy55		#4	[-]
(05/30/09 9:36 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	The story gets stranger: last night I pulled my '66 00-18 out of it's case to goof around. It hasn't been out for maybe two weeks. It was nearly in perfect tune. How....why.... Necturus maculosus (A.K.A. mudpuppy) Chuck, Mi. Last Edited By: mudpuppy55 05/30/09 2:04 PM. Edited 1 times.
Howard Klepper		#5	[-]
(05/30/09 5:28 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	More likely to be temperature. If it had been tuned on a warmer day it could easily be up 1/2 tone on a cold day.

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