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Jul 18 2007, 11:02 PM
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In an earlier post where I suggested adding a commonly asked questions and tech article section, someone asked for a write-up about how to adjust intonation. This .pdf file attachment is the first of three articles I'm doing that explain what intonation is and how it works. I'm doing articles on scale length and compensation to give the necessary background and then the article explaining intonation. I figure from there, we can do detailed explanations for particular bridge types if there's interest.
Since in that earlier post, it was brought up that GMC is putting together a wiki, I tried to adhere to the wiki writing style in case someone wants to add this article to it. I wasn't sure if you want references cited for this wiki, but I do have them if necessary even though they're not in this draft. This is a draft for an article that I wrote about scale length. Understanding scale length is important for many reasons -including intonation. I put it in a pdf file that way it was just one file to publish since it contains pictures, but it could be made into any file format later or multiple files. Please offer your criticism of the article and please check to make sure I didn't make any mistakes -factual or otherwise. Hopefully, your critiques of this draft will help serve as guidelines as far as what's expected out of future potential contributions. Download the file here: 
Scale_Length_Draft.pdf ( 711.07K )
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Jul 18 2007, 11:23 PM
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Excellent piece - very clear. Great use of graphics - helped clarify your points really well.
A couple of suggestions: you might want to add the scale lengths for a Fender Jazz and a Fender Precision Bass? Though ignore this if you want to keep the focus squarely on electric guitars  . As this is the first in a series you might want to flag what will follow in the other 2? I got the impression that you were doing this by mentioning compensation so I assume you are going to talk about compensated fretting in one of the others? Will you include something on the physics related to scale length - where the overtones, standing waves, harmonics lie and their relationship to scale and fret distance and possibly the formula that links scale length to fret position. Apologies as these are probably covered in the next 2 pieces - just enjoyed this one so much that I want to see more .Really like your layout style/template - just for consistency in other wiki articles perhaps we should adopt this one? Nice clean layout although longer articles (I think yours is fine though) might benefit from an index or similar. Excellent piece. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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