Ron.M -> RE: Measuring scale length (Jul. 15 2005 20:33:29)
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Yeah, I'm taking all this on board...but I thought that string (and other) instrument players were meant to compensate themselves to a degree? It's not just placing your finger on the fret and expecting it to come out exactly right like playing a piano note? Slight variations in pressure, or pulling the string slightly will affect the intonation to quite a noticible degree. When you watch Paco or Tomatito etc play, you can see that they are really using the guitar, getting the sound out of it that they want. Their left hand fingering has a lot of pulling and coaxing the sound they want to make IMO. To me it seems that they don't just daintily place their finger behind the fret and object if the resultant note is slightly over or under the reading they got from their electronic guitar tuner? These guys really work the guitar. String Bass, Violin (family), Oud players etc don't have this issue. Why should the luxury of having a fretted instrument, (which at least throws you very closely into the ballpark of correct intonation ) be any different? So maybe these builders were just building guitars as they had always made them , neglecting the ideas amongst younger and newer Luthiers? My dos euros?..... Ron
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