A multi-scale fingerboard is a fretboard instrument that combines multiple scale scales. The length of the scale is the long vibrating of the strings.
Guitars, including bass guitars, generally use a single length scale for all instrument strings, although the scale scale used varies significantly between manufacturers (electric guitar scales typically fall between 24 "and 25.5"). This measure is the effective length of each vibrating string, not including the compensation to adjust the intonation.
Multi-scale fingerboard or fretboard is usually based on two long scales, but may combine more. The most common use is a single length (length) scale for low strings and different scales, usually shorter, for the highest string. This can be achieved by fishing the nuts, and bridging, and fanning the frets. Strings between the highest and the lowest also each have a unique length scale.
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History
Bandora is a late 16th century instrument with longer string lengths for its bass strings than its treble. It is depicted in the music dictionary Praetorius Syntagma Musicum published in 1619.
The concept of a multiscale fingerboard goes back to at least 1900, when the first patent for such fingerboard was filed by E. A. Edgren. (Patent # 652-353, E. A. Edgren)
In 1900 his patent Edgren explained in his claim: "... a musical instrument combining with a body or sound box, of the following instrumentalities, for intelligence: the neck is roughly in a double-convex shape in a cross section..." A number of frets are secured to the neck , says the fret is positioned at one angle to the other so that the first and last frets are tilted in the opposite direction "... it will be noted that the base flanges of the C head run at an angle so that one side of B's ​​neck will be longer than the opposite side. , running from the center to the outside, so that the lower fret extends slightly in the opposite direction to the upper fret ". This patent is no longer valid. At that time, it only affected the instrument with a curved fingerboard, like most steel-string guitars.
Perhaps the first modern multiscale fretboard was used on an instrument called StarrBoard, coined by John D. Starrett in 1977. Starrett developed a tapping instrument that uses a halftone matrix, horizontally a vertically placed string to allow one finger to cover all scales. Due to the large range of notes from low B below E on the bass, to B four octaves high above, however, it requires a way to have a long scale for low B, but a shorter scale for B. He only composed two scales will work and connect the dots.
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Fret-foked guitar
Fanned-fret Guitar has a multi-scale fingerboard because the fret "offset"; a fret that extends from the neck of the guitar at an angle. This is in contrast to the other standard perpendicular guitar settings. Supporters of this guitar-style style claim benefits such as comfort, better ergonomics, better intonation, and better tension control across the fretboard.
Design and construction
Traditionally, the guitar features nineteen to twenty-four frets arranged perpendicular to the neck of the guitar. The Novak fiction friction guitar has straight frets that are aligned in a non-parallel pattern. Fan fret guitar has a long-scale increase on bass strings when measured between nut and bridge. The purpose of this design is to even the tone and tension of all six strings. Novak fret-fan guitar is made of walnut and lacewood (body) and birch, maple, tap, or walnut laminate. Novak recommends pickups that can master a wide frequency (with wood and string tones) and as much as possible Hi-Fi. One such pickup is Bartolini.
Novak patent
In 1989, Novak patented a new type fret arrangement which he called "fret fanning". The patent has expired, but Novak holds the trademark on the term "fanning-fret". Fan frets make different shapes on the guitar and allow different performance. The beveled frame extends the low strings and shortens the high-pitched strings. This is achieved by placing the bridge at an angle to the nut such that the distance between the nut and the bridge on the fretboard side for the low E string is longer than on the high side of the E string. There is uniform strain tension in the guitar neck, an easier adaptability to tuning changes, such as DADGAD, dropping C and dropping D, enhanced harmonic definition, and removal of non-harmonic tones and unwanted noise. B strings, in particular, sound lighter and clearer than they do on models that are not in fanning. In traditional guitars, the G string sometimes feels like it has a higher voltage than the other strings; on the fret-fixing guitar, the G string maintains the normal voltage and has a slightly warmer tone.
Ralph Novak
Ralph Novak is a guitar designer, builder and repairman who brings back old techniques in fret-fret guitar design (used on string instruments since the origin of the guitar itself). The merchandise tag is to provide an "ideal" electric guitar for blues musicians. As a musician, he wanted an instrument that provided a better tone and prevented his fingers from sliding off the fret tip when bending high E strings.
- "" The idea of ​​fret-fixation actually starts from a very simple and very selfish idea, "Novak said." As a blues guitar player, I like to do a lot of bookkeeping, and at the same time I like to have a crisp and crisp voice on low strings. My initial idea was to create a guitar that has a Les Paul-type retain and sweetness of the treble and has the kind of crisis and definition of Tele or Strat on the bass. From making improvements over the years, I know it's not the construction, the stiffness of the neck, or the kind of wood that causes these tonal objects. And it's not a pickup. "Novak copies the old method of fret position, which provides every string of natural length scale, to achieve better intonation throughout the string strings.
Negative neck angle
The Greenfield guitar has developed a 'negative neck angle' guitar. It combines elements from classical guitar concerts and viola and mandolin (elevated fretboard). This bridge is burned from front to back (towards the location of the strings) and from side to side.
See also
- Bandora (instrument);
- Orpharion, another early modern instrument, is similar to bandora;
- Charlie Hunter, an American jazz guitarist who has appeared and recorded with an eight-string "fanned-fretted" electric guitar made by Ralph Novak;
- Jean Baudin from Nuclear Rabbit band plays 9 and 11 bass guitar strings featuring frets fides;
- Guitar Brahms, a classical guitar with eight strings with a tilt fret, was originally developed by guitarist Paul Galbraith and luthier David Rubio.
- Gordon Giltrap
References
External links
- United States Patent Office
- The calculator for calculating fret locations for multiscale fretboard can be found on Counting the Fret Position of Liutaio Mottola Lutherie Website.
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