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Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf  ^ Untrue, from 5+ years experience, mon frere.
I've had success at F with a .059 (although the Elixir .068 is the best). I've tried heavier, and haven't liked the tone as well. Plus, I have no issues with "instability" OR intonation. I still think 27" scale is probably damn near perfect for F, at least for me, but 25.5 works very well.
This is said not to be contrary, but just to shed some light on it from a guy with lots and lots of experience with the whole shebang.  |
Yeah, but not everyone likes spaghetti strings
I'm sure you know what you're talking about, I'm just in a dickish mood today, sorry
Let me rephrase what I said: You can get it to work fine, but if you like tight strings, you'll have to get a gargantuan string gauge.
I tuned my .59 to F# for that Orchestral song a while back, and while I didn't bother checking intonation since I was only using the low open-string F#, but it was waaay too lose for me. When a string is this loose, it has the nasty habit of pitch going up and then gradually falling down to correct pitch over the period of several seconds. I'm really curious Bob, have you managed to overcome this somehow, or do you just deal with it?
I could use some advice since I plan on experimenting with such tunings later on.