On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 17:01, MarC wrote: > En/na Jan Depner ha escrit: > > >On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 10:55, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > > > > > > > >>Fact is, it is impossible to tune an acoustic guitar > >>"perfectly"...Invariably, when you have it tuned so an open G chord > >>sounds spot on, an open A or even C will be a tad off. And the same > >>applies to the inverse of course. This all due to a general lack of > >>adjustment for intonation on acoustic axes. But to the untuned ear > >>(which I agree in sort...should be the final judge of how your axe is > >>"tuned" ) this is not really noticeble. > >> > >> > >> > > > > Feiten tuned guitars are much better, unfortunately the method is > >patented. > > > >Jan > > Funny thing about this is that I made a guitar in 1989 that had a 650mm scale (just slightly longer than 25.5 inches) but I screwed up and set the first fret spacing for 25.5 inches. This turns out to be just about Feiten tuned. The guitar plays true pretty much anywhere on the neck. Jan
