Ricardo -> RE: About the soul of guitar. Just for sharing. (Mar. 1 2015 15:27:35)
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ORIGINAL: SephardRick Those bass strings are robust! It just goes to show how luthiers are a breed apart. For a guitar without a saddle it works and sounds remarkably well. What player thought, that a saddle was not a necessary functioning part of the guitar? I talked about this for a while now, about how the break angle ain't no big deal as we had to repair a students's guitar that had the string holes damaged such that you could not lower the bone. Actually we lowered the bone for sake of action and there was zero break angle and the resulte was the guitar was clear and loud as before....so you can take any bone out of the bridge the guitar sounds just fine (so long as neck angle allows the action to clear the frets for a clean enough sound)... but there was a problem we noticed. The strings rattle or buzz at the bridge, and annoyingly so if you play hard. So it is as if the saddle functions only to allow the player to fine tune he action, and prevent buzzing. So the guy playing in the video with no saddle has that annoying buzzing at the bridge I am talking about, but the guitar is as loud as any other thanks to the action being high enough. About the song the guy is playing, the first thing that hit my mind when I heard the intro was Caracol: http://youtu.be/jQgb6oRgHUQ About the old guy being nutty, it's what I thought, though faulk seems to agree that that many luthier seem to think it IS important (about F# vs other being ideal), a clear divide in opinion. Interesting. Ricardo
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