bridge/intonation

[timrip]

any physicists in here wanna help me out with this one...

why exactly does a longer string length/scale towards the low E and a short length/scale towards the high E supposedly help with intonation?

 

[Zerberus]

Re: bridge/intonation

In a very cramped nutshell: because the stretching of the string caused by pulling it off axis (i.e. fretting it) increases the tension on the string less on the treble side than it does on the bass side. There are quite a few other factors that play into it though....

I´m not a physicist, but if you want to build guitars you also gotta learn this kind of stuff, but it´s not really something that can be explained in detail within the confines of an Internet forum IMO...

 

[TheArchitect]

Re: bridge/intonation

any physicists in here wanna help me out with this one...

why exactly does a longer string length/scale towards the low E and a short length/scale towards the high E supposedly help with intonation?

There is no supposedly about it. It works.