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Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
Andres Marvi's string height
Hi guys. How are you?
Recently, I have been interested in Andres Marvi's guitars. The bass is wild, and the high pitch is bright. I have found many Andres on the internet, but most of the heights of the saddle are very low, from 6mm to 7.5mm, and the heights on the 12th fret are about 2.7mm.
I was wondering why many Marvi guitars had such low settings. Do these guitars' necks bend easily? I am interested in buying one with 7.2mm on the saddle and 2.8mm on the 12th. But I don't know if this guitar will keep changing.
Posts: 16272
Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
RE: Andres Marvi's string height (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
My opinion is they are not "bright" as you say. How would you know if the neck had "bent"? Guitars are stable with stable humidity...if you force them to endure wild changes any guitar will have to adapt to that. Those numbers only tell us how the neck angle was set, which sounds quite good for a flamenco guitar.
Posts: 4810
Joined: Aug. 9 2006
From: Iran (living in Germany)
RE: Andres Marvi's string height (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
here at 4:30 he talks about specifically the tolerances and the string height at the bridge area and how important that is.
He also talks about how he started with flamenco, but tried to implement classical "features" in to them. Maybe this is why in my opinion his guitars usually have a - let's say - warmer sweeter tone and not as aggressive/bright or whatever you want to call that other style.
This one with the pegs is probably the "brightest" one I have heard, but usually his guitars are warmer and fuller sounding. He also builds with a more raised Neck which goes up to almost to the sound hole
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