Originally Posted by The Monkey

To people well versed in these fields, this might be the most idiotic question you've ever read, but it really doesn't make any sense to me. Whenever my guitar is out of tune after playing (both the acoustic and the electric), and I retune it, I always find that I need to tune the strings down to get them back in tune, rather than up. Logic, as far as my mind can grasp it, dictates that strings, after being plucked, picked and bended for long durations of time would loosen up, rather than tighten, but apparently that's not the case. It's a complete mystery to me, and if anyone could shed some light on this I would be thankful.