|
|
Post by winetree on Sept 27, 2015 13:45:03 GMT -6
|
|
|
|
Post by b1 on Sept 27, 2015 13:48:02 GMT -6
Shredding... I've never seen it to that extreme, though.
|
|
|
|
Post by b1 on Sept 27, 2015 13:49:46 GMT -6
It went from jumbo frets to scalloping.
|
|
|
|
Post by mobeach on Sept 27, 2015 15:53:22 GMT -6
The virtuoso's Like Malmsteen, Gilbert, Vai and Hamilton use them  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 17:55:16 GMT -6
John McLaughlin started with scalloped fretboard in his time with Mahavishnu Orchestra. The initial purpose might have been the chance to use sitar-style bending with pushing straight down on a guitar.
Scalloped fingerboards need only a light touch of the string and can speed up playing, but on the other hand, pressing further down to the wood easily lets the note go sharp. But this is intended, obviously, and can be used for new possibilities of bending.
On a bass, scalloping eases the sideway bends also, especially if the bass has low action.
Many also use asymetric scalloping because they prefer traditional feeling on the lower notes and/or strings...
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 18:02:20 GMT -6
I guess the whole thing became this popular, esp. in the harder guitar styles, because of Ritchie Blackmore, who was a McLaughlin fan and therefore tried scalloped fretboard very early.
|
|
|
|
Post by mobeach on Sept 27, 2015 19:53:15 GMT -6
Exactly, your pitch can change slightly with a standard fretted guitar but more frequent on bass, if the player presses too hard on the string.
|
|
|
|
Post by jimwilliams on Oct 3, 2015 9:54:32 GMT -6
It was a fad started by McLaughlin, after the Rex Bogue double-neck was built. John asked to have that done to it but Rex refused as it would rip up all that fine inlay. So he had it done to other guitars. I never warmed up to it as any decent player can bend a note, not many can maintain intonation using thin strings.
All because you don't play chords on a sitar but you do on guitar.
|
|
