I put myself through college teaching guitar. If the bridge is not accurately position on the guitar, the combination of the bridge placement and frets on the neck can maybe get the guitar in tune at "open" position, but then when playing further up the neck everything can be out of tune - just to throw in a "clinker". Ken Gerler ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Foote To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] 6 strings versus 200 + strings Keith writes: During a seminar a colleague and I took a break, whereupon he shared with me his Martin guitar in his hotel room. Here two so-called RPTs' had completely different ideas as to what sounded correct with this 6-string Martin guitar.<< I am constantly amazed at how few guitarists know how to tune a guitar, and I live in Guitar Town! I have never seen any of the guitarists that consider the need to have the G-B third beating slower than the G-E sixth! And stretching the fourths from the G down to the low E is an alien concept. I have shown a few of them how to accurately tune the thing, and it always blows them away, but the common remarkis that it would be impossible to do this on stage, and in the "heat of battle" in studio sessions, it would be difficult, also. But every one of them has told me that the guitar has never sounded more even. It ain't that hard to do, using 1st fret test notes for the fourths above...Regards, Ed Foote -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110131/439bb513/attachment.htm>
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