Bought i nice ecoustic guitar a short time ago. Sounded excellent for the first few weeks and have been keeping it in tune with an electric tuner. Now i seem to find it impossible to tune the high E string correctly. It almost sounds too high pitched and makes every cord i play sound awful. The string also now goes out of tune very quickly. This is exactly the same problem i had with a previous cheap guitar. Though the electric tuner says it is tuned the stick waves about as if it can't quite decide. Is it something i'm doing wrong when tuning?

This issue has been posted a few times already. I would replace the string first and see if that fixes the problem.

Yeah try replacing the strings...also when you put the strings on your guitar try and put the B and high E string through the hole twice in the tuning peg so it wont slip...also leave enough string so that the string will wind around a bunch of times which also helps the string not to slip.





[Edited on 1/11/2007 by Spidercents]

What I would suggest wait until you finally decide what gauge of strings that you well be using on that guitar. Once you have decided set it up for those strings. Most guitars don’t come set up nicely, just to be playable when trying it out. Once you put the proper groves in the nut then most of your tuning problems well be solved. Now depending on how much you play and the acid content in your system well determines how long your strings well last. One day I had put a new set on and a guy tried it out and after he gave me back the guitar the strings were dead from his high acid content.