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Posted at October 25, 2016, 6:01 pm:

How many people here detune their strings when they are done playing bass for the day? For those who've never heard of this, it relieves tension on the strings and the neck.

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And it makes a difference.

My bass is incapable of retaining any sort of tuning.

You only need to do that if your storing it for a very long time.

Because when it is kept in tune it stretches the strings which causes ...

Yeah.

My bass very seldom goes out of tune over night or something.

So I am taking it no one does.

nope.

hmm i should really stop listening to some people lol.

I cant say that Ive done this.

i only do this on my home-made bass, with a plastic neck.

then every time you retune itll restretch em and mess em up or sumthin

I think if you need to do this you should consider getting a new bass.

No way.

as an interesting side note, most of the plastic necks on the market a...

As opposed to detuning the bass, which keeps it in tune? Prio...

What a waste of time in retuning.

nope.

My thoughts exactly.

well why would you want to relieve tension on the neck.

I don't.

I would think that loosening the strings every day would cause more st...

all this talk of detuning when not playing, and harm coming to your ne...

I've never bothered doing that.

my bass doesnt go out of tune after 3 week's, even longer sometime's.

Uh, if your detuning then whys it matter if the strings are stretched ...

I've heard this before.

any chance we could get photos

OHHHH!!!!!! Thanks for clearing that up.

What a load of botox.

If tension on the strings gets them out of tune then why would you det...

Surely it can't do the truss rod(s) any good by altering the tension o...

i'd have to say .

sounds like a pretty annoying idea to me.

The strings should be stretched in anyway, thats the point of wearing ...

This is what I reckon, could be wrong but.

Good ol' Edge always there to answer any tech problems!

I've never heard of this.

My Conklin stays in tune almost indefinitely.

Does a short scale bass stay in tune longer than apposed to a long sca...

Luggage holds in aircraft are usually neither heated nor pressurized.

So my dog went through 20 hours of cold when we got here? That sucks l...

That's why I said 'usually'.

I think your bass should be fine if its checked in as carry on though.

Why would you do it because your bass goes slightly out of tune? Th...

You should just say that you have a very shy snake in your bass case a...

A very shy snake.

Did she put it into the heated section?

No

Nope.

lowsound

I need to retune my bass lol

I played my bass Lastnight, and my bass moved around alot, when i went...

i can play my bass for an hour and not play it for a week then come ba...

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