I would not advise pulling those bass strings a semitone high!!!!!!!! The Yamaha scale is pretty high and the strings are in the 50%-60% range already!! If you pull a semitone high, you'll sure as heck either break strings or stress them so bad, that the reason for replacing the strings, will still be there. IMHO Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
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