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Rich's electric guitar thoughts

Staggered guitar tuners are of no use - I put staggered tuners on one of my T-style guitars and I quickly understand why staggered tuners are an idea that never caught on. Here's why. Staggered tuners are supposed to address the shallow break angle issue that motivates most T-style and S-style guitars to have string trees on the B and high-E strings (and sometimes the G string). Unfortunately, staggered tuners don't help the break angle on these strings, staggered tuners hurt the break angle on the low-E, A and D strings. If your guitar needed string trees before staggered tuners, it will need string trees after staggered tuners. In fact, it may need more string trees because now the low-E, A and D strings will have more shallow break angles. Skip the staggered tuners.

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