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So now after we've strung our guitar, we have brand new strings on the guitar. Now the only
thing that goes out of tune faster than an extremely old string is a brand new string.
Because they're so fresh, they've never been pulled tight to there desired tautness, and
they're going to have a lot of give. So what we want to do is we want to just kind of play
around with each string. Give it a good tug. We want to do this because we want it to stretch
a little more than it's desired tautness. That way, it can settle in at a medium tautness,
which is going to give us the right pitch. Also, that way it won't out of tune so easily.
So after we've done this, we've given them all a really good tug. And now it's incredibly
out of tune. So we're going to start with the E. Need to go up a little bit. A--up a
little bit still. So this is good that we did this. That one went far flat. G--very
flat again. B--with the solid steel strings it doesn't make such a big difference as the
wound strings, but as you can still see, a little bit flat. And the high E.
We're in tune.