I don't usually venture over to the acoustic side of the house, but over New Years I got the chance to play a replica of Johnny Cash's famous D-35. The first thing I noticed was that it had double dots. Apparently a good bit of Martins have that style of inlays.
I assumed that the reason is because when people play acoustic they need the fret markers for a different reason. Electric players use them to know where they are further up the neck and the octave has two inlays because it's special, but I assume acoustic players use them as warnings of sorts. The 5th fret dot means "ease up buddy, you're getting kind of crazy" and the double on the 7th means "you really shouldn't be up here". But what's the real reason?
Please note the above comments come from a guy who built a five fret acoustic with the chord diagrams for E,A,D,G, and C as inlays for his brother in-law.
I assumed that the reason is because when people play acoustic they need the fret markers for a different reason. Electric players use them to know where they are further up the neck and the octave has two inlays because it's special, but I assume acoustic players use them as warnings of sorts. The 5th fret dot means "ease up buddy, you're getting kind of crazy" and the double on the 7th means "you really shouldn't be up here". But what's the real reason?
Please note the above comments come from a guy who built a five fret acoustic with the chord diagrams for E,A,D,G, and C as inlays for his brother in-law.
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