mmmenk -> RE: Saddle vs. Nut (Jan. 23 2016 6:05:34)
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What you say is so true. It all comes down to the player, and they need to get what they want. My father did the most screwed up thing that I have ever seen in my entire life. He had this junk guitar that he bought at Sears, back in 1959, back before all the cheap stuff coming out of Japan, then China. Guitar was probably made in Chicago. The action was messed up, so he wanted to fix it himself. Mr Meg was a smart guy, trained as a scientist, but lost his mind in WW2. He could bang out a great song, and learned to play the guitar in the army, from some good ole southern boys. His talking blues were the best. Here is what happened: the action was too low and buzzing, so he takes out a lead weight from an exercise trainer, and bangs it with a hammer to bring it up to the height that he needs to stop the strings from buzzing, and finally gets it flat and tall enough to satisfy his needs. And he just jams it up against the front of the bridge, and has a good old time with his guitar. I guess since he never shifted his chord formations out of first position, the intonation thing was never a factor for him. One last factoid about Mr. M. He had the largest hands in the land. He could cover 2 strings with the tip of his little finger. He had some really cool techniques for forming chords with his paws. He was the best, that is why I love the guitar so much.
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