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Oct 25 2014, 07:20 PM
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I've never seen these before and they look strange
 http://www.truetemperament.com/ http://www.truetemperament.com/necks/ http://www.freakguitar.com/applehorn.html Wild  Phil -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE  “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Oct 25 2014, 07:49 PM
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Those frets indeed look funky
 I heard about the system behind it and it does make sense. Currently it is not possible to get truly 100% spot on tuning of notes across the guitar fretboard and those wiggly frets should be compensating for that. I wonder if anyone played one of those guitars or have more information? How does it feel playing a guitar with such fretboard and also is the intonation spot on? -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Oct 25 2014, 07:54 PM
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I was wondering what it would feel like when bending or doing vibrato
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Oct 31 2014, 09:53 AM
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That's the TRUE TEMPERAMENT system and it costs over $1,000 to do it to your guitar. You can buy guitars as you've linked with it pre-done. It raises the cost a bit
The process claims that it creates "perfect" intonation all along the neck. It's done per guitar so it's something that takes a good bit of effort. One could always grab the electronics out of one of those peavey guitars that use an on board autotune circuit to maintain perfect tune and skip the process and save the cash But it does look cool.I'd really like to try a scalloped True Tremp neck Todd QUOTE (Phil66 @ Oct 25 2014, 02:20 PM)  I've never seen these before and they look strange
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Oct 31 2014, 08:44 PM
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QUOTE (Phil66 @ Oct 25 2014, 11:20 AM) I've never seen these before and they look strange http://www.truetemperament.com/ http://www.truetemperament.com/necks/ http://www.freakguitar.com/applehorn.html Wild Phil those images at the top of the applehorn page look ... um.... wrong. -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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Oct 31 2014, 08:57 PM
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Looking at them shows how far out a guitar can be with normal bridge intonation
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Nov 1 2014, 10:41 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 1 2014, 02:30 PM) Yes! Intonation on the guitar is a huge problem - much bigger than people realize. Because of this, only a few players with amazing pitch/vibrato control can actually play a good sounding and slow melody with sustained notes. Also, many chord voicings will sound horrible without some kind of modulation effect (ie chorus) to hide the out-of-tune notes. After a while we learn to work around this problem, some people even argue it's not a problem and that it just adds character to the instrument. But I think the guitar is so sensitive to our input that we don't really need this kind of additional handicap. Yeah, I don't think it's a 'problem' at all. It can be annoying on a crappy instrument or one that is horribly out of adjustment. We've been tuning more or less to what we now call 12-tone equal temperament (12 tet) for a long time (JS Bach, 17th cent). Pianos, keyboards, all fretted insts and most keyed/valved wind and brass insts are pretty 'fixed' as far as their intonation is concerned. It'll only even become an issue when a fixed, equal temperament instrument plays in an ensemble with 'justly' tuned instruments. And even then I bet most folks wouldn't even notice the pitch discrepancies. A well made guitar or bass with a proper set up as well as a player that knows how to properly fret a string not to mention tune their instrument can play very in tune, long melodies as well as thousands of different chord voicings in all keys. Equal temperament was an incredibly liberating discovery allowing large ensembles of varied and different instruments to be able to play together in tune and in more than one or two keys. In fact 'equally' in tune (or equally out of tune if you're a baroque era cynic) over all 12 keys. It made modulation possible. The importance of equal temperament to western music can not be over stated. This post has been edited by klasaine: Nov 1 2014, 11:07 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Nov 1 2014, 11:15 PM
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-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Nov 2 2014, 04:05 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 2 2014, 01:37 AM) However I do think it's a shame the guitar is so difficult for beginners. I'll agree that learning the guitar in the beginning is a physically demanding endeavor but winds and strings are far more difficult in the early stages to play in tune. Hell, just to get a sound out of a sax can take a day or two. A saxophone or trumpet or flute player must constantly adjust their embouchure, speed of their air and how opened their throat is just to play a C major scale in tune in one octave. String instruments - forget about it - no frets. It's all 'adjustment'. The only instrument easier than guitar for a beginner - intonation wise - is a piano. And like a piano, a guitar can at least produce a sound instantly. That's why guitar and piano are so popular. This post has been edited by klasaine: Nov 2 2014, 04:10 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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