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5
Re-Stringing Your Guitar
The procedure for re-stringing at-top acoustic guitars and basses is quite
similar in the way that the strings are wound onto the tuning machines.
There are dierences though, in how the strings are attached to the bridges
of acoustic at-top and classical guitars.
Please Note: When changing strings, change them one at a time.
Do not remove all of the strings at the same time, as doing so will release all
of the tension at once from the neck and body, which may potentially cause
distortion and damage to the instrument.
Stringing Flat-Top, Steel String Acoustic Guitars:
Flat-top acoustics have a surface mounted pin style bridge with holes and
bridge pins to hold the strings in place. To re-string a attop, remove the
bridge pin and the old string. If the bridge pin is dicult to remove, you may
want to purchase a combination string winder/bridge pin puller from your
local Dealer, (Figure 4).
Feed the ball end of the new string into the corresponding hole in the bridge,
and then reinsert the bridge pin snugly to keep the string in place.
Make sure that the bridge pin is positioned with the grooved side riding
over the string, (Figure 5). Do not hammer the bridge pin in. A rm twisting
push with the thumb should secure it in place.
illustration 4
illustration 5