Anders Eliasson -> RE: Questions about "string height"? (Nov. 3 2013 8:25:47)
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Not everyone thinks it is. I have been playing for 45 years and do not find it important unless the saddle is really, really high. It does make it easier to do "martillo" golpes, where you hit the golpeador above the strings with the back of the fingernail on the way to hitting the bass strings with that same back of fingernail. Some people find that it can be problematic having the saddle very low, because it's hard to get fingers in place to do free stroke. I wish people wouldn't refer to having the saddle low as low action, though, because this makes things confusing. My recomendations come from letting good local Andalucian flamenco players test and comment my instruments. In the case of stringheight at the bridge, something around 80% find that 9mm is to high, that 8mm is ok and that 7 - 7,5mm is just right. Most of them, the first thing they do when they check a guitar is to look at the stringheight at the bridge. If its to high, they comment on that before they play. And some almost refuse to test a guitar that has much more than "cigaret" stringheight at the bridge. Most of them are in constant contact with the soundbord with one or more fingers except when doing arpeggios. They have been brougt up with flamenco guitars and have been told their whole life that things have to be a certain way and so they have gotten used to guitars with some special. physical characteristics. Funny enough, VERY few found that 3mm stringheight 6th string at the 12th fret was to high. Besides that, I find it to be totally correct to include saddle height in the term "action height" (being low or high) On flamenco guitars it is such an important issue and it goes together ia a complete setup pack with terms like relief, stringheight at 12th fret and stringheight at the bridge.
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