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charger
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I think I've seen Charlie Hunter playing one. They look cool, with the slanting frets, but I'm sure you have to be a monster to play one well.
ausrock
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I have seen and played a similar designed acoustic.
The concept behind the design is to give the top strings that "brightness" associated with short scale "parlour" guitars while maintaining a fuller bodied sound on the lower notes with the lengthening scale.
They are easy to play..........JUST DON'T LOOK AT THE FRETBOARD when you are playing. Let you fingers fall naturally.
The concept behind the design is to give the top strings that "brightness" associated with short scale "parlour" guitars while maintaining a fuller bodied sound on the lower notes with the lengthening scale.
They are easy to play..........JUST DON'T LOOK AT THE FRETBOARD when you are playing. Let you fingers fall naturally.
Treeline
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The fanned fret system also allows for more precise intonation because it compensates for string diameter and tension differences that tend to make lower strings fret "sharp;" there will be a little less variance between fretted and open string intonation. Great idea.
pchorman
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here we go on the intonation kick again
you mean strumming a chord in any position on this assymetrically fretted beast will sound better than the respective positions of a standard guitar?
Has anyone verified this first-hand and is the intonation improvement noticeable?
you mean strumming a chord in any position on this assymetrically fretted beast will sound better than the respective positions of a standard guitar?
Has anyone verified this first-hand and is the intonation improvement noticeable?
matty_boy
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I was under the impression that a fanned fret guitar had more to do with keeping the strings closer to the same tension. I could understand playing a fanned fret bass, but wouldn't the learning curve be daunting trying to play a fanned fret guitar?
Scooter B
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I have only seen the fanned frets on bass before. One particular high end custom builder used to promote this concept heavily for the 5, 6 and more basses I would give you the name but i am experiencing a brain freeze at the moment.
All the reviews I read indicated the increased scale/tension on the low strings made huge improvements on note definition for the low B string. The reviews also indicated the learing curve was suprising slow.
As for guitar with extensive chord playing
(not just power chords) it certianly would appear to have a little more to get used to.
All the reviews I read indicated the increased scale/tension on the low strings made huge improvements on note definition for the low B string. The reviews also indicated the learing curve was suprising slow.
As for guitar with extensive chord playing
(not just power chords) it certianly would appear to have a little more to get used to.
CDT-sHaG
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i'll bet if you dont look at them while you play it's a smaller learning curve.......i couldnt bring myself to drop that kinda dough on one though..lol......