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How do I keep an electric guitar in tune even when one of the string is bended?

• Ok so I've just put a new string set onto my ESP guitar (which is equipped with a tremolo bridge) and had them all in tune. However, while playing, whenever I bend a string and hit one note on a different string (while still not releasing the bended one) then that other string would go out of tune. I could see the cause of this is that the bended string is pulling up the bridge, loosening the entire string set. How do I resolve this? This might be a dumb question, I have been playing guitar for 8 years and still don't know how to fix this. I'd appreciate any help here. Thanks

• Answer:

  This is one of the few sensible questions about guitar I've seen in a while! If it's any consolation this is a recognised problem with vibrato bridges and is one reason why country players, who do lots of fancy things involving bending strings and playing several notes together, tend to favour the Tele over the Strat! A related problem is that a broken string knocks the whole guitar out of tune and unusable, if if you are playing some really simple lines and don't need to use the broken strings - the remaining strings go sharp this time. You could try to make the whole unit "stiffer" - more springs. There is a device called a Tremsetter, made by a company called Hipshot which is designed to alleviate the problem. I've never tried it but maybe it's worth a go: http://audiozone.dk/index-filer/Tremsetter.htm