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Ricardo -> RE: flamenco guitar fretboard width (Aug. 18 2023 16:20:32)
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ORIGINAL: mark indigo
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Take a guitar and compare width at bridge between strings, to the string spacing at the nut. yeah, I KNOW the strings are wider at bridge than nut, like, on all my guitars present and past... what I meant was, how were the guitars referred to different?
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The skinny neck guitars are for cross over players that use a pick and want the feel of the steel string acoustics or even electric guitars. Perhaps even the thumb goes over top for bass notes on certain chords.
But for serious fingerstyle players it is surprising but the guitar is more difficult to play if the strings taper down that way. if these guitars have narrower necks, I assume they also have narrower bridges too? And have similar ratio between nut and bridge to a standard spanish classical or flamenco guitar (are we talking 42mm nut or something for these guitars?). Or do they not? is the nut wider compared to the bridge, or narrower? I know guitars "taper", just not clear what exactly "that way" is in this case.
The issue is yes, if the string spacing is closer overall, AND, surprisingly when it is “normal” like a Conde let’s say at the bridge, there are guitars out there whose nuts have string slots that are deliberately cramming the strings together, not taking advantage of the wide enough neck/fingerboard design….and there must be some mentality that lower end or student guitars “need” this situation, yet these instruments are much harder to play. When a student “graduates” to a more expensive instrument, it is often the case the nut allows a string spacing much wider than the lower end equivalent guitar, and to me it is likely deliberate. Simply cutting a new nut might turn a lower end student guitar into something that feels like a concert guitar “magically”.
The OP is an admitted lower level student and is already operating under the assumption that he might need a narrow neck model guitar, and I felt a need to remove that from his mind.
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