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Originally Posted by Ian.lum
Tommy Emmanuel has a fantastic tip for this:
put the capo on your guitar once it's in tune and give the offending strings a really good tug. It stretches the strings and hey presto, you'll be in tune and still in tune when you release the capo. I have tried this and it really works. A great tip from the master!
Goood luck
Ian
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I yield to nobody in my admiration for Tommy Emmanuel, but let's not get the idea that he is the originator of this tip. To my knowledge, guitarists have been doing this since the mid-sixties, and possibly for long before that ...