Any experience with multi-scale/fanned fret instruments?
- Thread starter DarkMatter
- Start date
aleclee
Major General GAS
Re: Any experience with multi-scale/fanned fret instruments?
Strandberg's 7 and 8 string models have the 5th fret neutral rather than the nut.
Late last year, they introduced the Boden Trem. I got the one they had at their NAMM booth. I don't have a ton of time on it but I don't seem to have any issues with the fan. I tend to feel my way around the fretboard more than going off muscle memory or visual cues, though. My buddy tried one at NAMM and struggled a bit, particularly barring up the neck.
Johnny the Kid
Shaunofthedeadologist
Re: Any experience with multi-scale/fanned fret instruments?
Interesting. I always thought that the 12th fret was typically neutral. Then again, Strandberg does seem like the kind of company that experiments constantly with different designs.
Interesting. I always thought that the 12th fret was typically neutral. Then again, Strandberg does seem like the kind of company that experiments constantly with different designs.
DarkMatter
Unprofessional Toneologist
Re: Any experience with multi-scale/fanned fret instruments?
Most of the multiscales I've seen on the webs seem to have the straight fret as either the 7th or the 9th. One company claims that's where most players would have their arm perpendicular to the neck.
Muscle memory, I don't practice enough for that to matter.
Most of the multiscales I've seen on the webs seem to have the straight fret as either the 7th or the 9th. One company claims that's where most players would have their arm perpendicular to the neck.
Muscle memory, I don't practice enough for that to matter.
J E C
New member
