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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
Can a string actually "stretch" though? They're metal...
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This has been raised before, and it seems to me that if the string was incapable of stretching "because it is metal" then it would not be suitable for a guitar string, lacking tensile strength.
Lacking tensile strength, it would seem to me that the string would be too brittle and would simply break.
I understand that some, perhaps even most, of the 'settling in' is due to the wraps on the tuning post snugging up, but in my experience, the string also stretches, as it does with my electrics that have locking tuners and no more than 1/2 a wrap around the post...they still require some tugging to get them to stay in pitch.