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Old 12-21-2016, 05:42 AM
murrmac123 murrmac123 is offline
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Originally Posted by joinercape View Post
Some players have separate string nuts for summer and winter, others add or subtract paper or veneer shims under the nut to account for these variations.
I am familiar with the practice of having separate saddles for winter an summer (leastways on steel strung guitars) ... this is because the soundboard swells or shrinks and the height of the bridge and the saddle varies accordingly.

I have never heard of the practice of changing out the nut according to the season , and tbh I cannot see why the change in humidity should have anything to do with the height of the strings at the nut.

Perhaps one of the classical luthiers could comment here.
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