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How to Adjust the Action and Intonation of a Guitar

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Check guitar intonation by listening to the twelfth fret notes and the twelfth fret harmonic of each string.

With a screwdriver, turn the screws below the saddles clockwise if the fretted note sounds higher pitched than the harmonic; turn them counterclockwise if the fretted notes is lower pitched than the harmonic.

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