8 NS-CR4/5 Radius Bass Owner’s ManualRe-Stringing and TuningThis bass accepts any standard single-ball end,full-scale bass guitar strings. The way the stringsare clamped leaves them undamaged and withoutthe usual windings on the end. This lets you easilytake them out (e.g. for cleaning) and put themback on the bass as often as desired.1 Turn the tuning knob fully counter-clockwiseto loosen the string, until the slotted tuningarm is in the frontmost position (towards thebridge).The clamping mechanism opens up and you canpull the string(s) out.