Lämpövaihtelun vaikutus kitaran viritykseen

Could someone explane to me why the tuning goes low when I let the arctic air into the room - the effect is strongest on the 3th string, which is a massive nylon one. Shouldn't it effect opposite way because the material goes smaller when it gets cooler? I don't get it - aren't I dum? . . .

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• guitartuning
• tuning
• arctic

[bunkomen]

I think the wood of the guitar which narrows it decreases the tension of the strings.

Why indeed is it stronger on the third ? Perhaps because it is closer to the middle of the neck ? It's just a hypothesis ...

Thomas

[VegaLeyffinen]

The effect of differing the temperature is so fast: it effects to the strings - surely, after a while, to the body of the guitar, too. Now I'm not quite sure did it effect same way (=down) to the steel strings since it was so long ago when I had steel strings on this Bjärton candy guitar. I can't really say if your theory is wrong or right - interesting, though, but at least this is a bigger problem for us here than to you. I live just on the Arctic Circle in Finland.

[realisvirIV]

Maybe it's something that happens specifically to nylon since it's a different material. Kind of like how water expands when it freezes but other liquids shrink. *shrugs*

Cool though...

-Stephen

[VegaLeyffinen]

As I told to Thomas before, I don't remember what the effect was to the steel strings - I used steel strings maybe for 25 years ago, but I'm quite sure that nylon doesn't go larger on a cooler temperature, but at least we, here, tune our guitars tens of times a day! Thanks for your interest.

[bunkomen]

Awesome !! And fun !

I don't know where you live but It seems to be cold !

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Thomas