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Originally Posted by gdbird
All of a sudden, I can't play a Barre chord! Muted strings, not able to get chord shapes to form correctly. What the heck?
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Is it the same guitar you had before? Or is it one with possibly a higher action at the nut?
At 66, I'm having more trouble than I used to, even with guitars of a similar action. I think it's a question of either losing some strength in those muscles or possibly some tissue in the index finger itself. I've compensated by lowering the action even more than it was, or simply tuning it down a half and putting a capo on the first fret.
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Yamaha FG-411-12 String
Oscar Teller 7119 classical (built in 1967)
and a bunch of guitars and mandolins I've made ... OM, OO, acoustic bass, cittern, octave mandolin, mandola, etc. ... some of which I've kept.
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