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Topic: How many frets make up an octave on the steel guitar? |
Billy Henderson
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Portland, AR, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2012 9:51 am |
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dumb question, I think I know but i want to be sure.
thanks in advance |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Eugene Cole
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near Washington Grove, MD, USA
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Posted 26 Aug 2012 11:43 am
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
| 12. Same as on a guitar. |
If the fretboard is laid out for the correct scale length that is.... |
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 8:36 pm
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Thirteen (13) !
You have to consider that each of the twelve half-tones that it takes to
complete the octave has both a beginning point (fret) and an end point (fret).
In the distance of one octave on a fretboard there will be one fret
at the beginning of the octave and one fret at the end of the octave.
Between those two frets, there will be eleven frets that serve as both
the end of one half-tone and the beginning of the adjacent half-tone.
~Rw
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Lane Gray
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Topeka, KS
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 9:22 pm
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and assuming a normal western octave. I imagine somewhere out there, there is someone with a 19 fret octave for playing Indian music. Or a Chinese 6 fret octave.
( it's music, Jim, but not as we know it)
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Clete Ritta
From:
San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 9:55 pm
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Ahah! A trick question! So there are 12 frets between octaves only which originate at the open position (at the nut).
Does the nut count as a fret?...If it does, wouldn't the bridge be considered a fret too? 
Clete |
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Georg Sørtun
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Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 10:10 pm
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| Clete Ritta wrote: |
| Does the nut count as a fret?...If it does, wouldn't the bridge be considered a fret too? |
Yes, and yes 
You do pick behind the bar at times, don't you?
As for frets on a steel guitar, one may argue that there are only the nut, bridge and the bar. That makes 3 ... for however many octaves one wants to cover  |
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Lane Gray
From:
Topeka, KS
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 10:25 pm
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Once you get to the pickup poles on an electric guitar, the frets would stop.
I'll ignore Georg's point: Georg was obviously one of the people pointing out that the millennium didn't start til 2001.
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Georg Sørtun
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Mandal, Agder, Norway
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Posted 27 Aug 2012 10:32 pm
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| Lane Gray wrote: |
| Once you get to the pickup poles on an electric guitar, the frets would stop. |
... with movable PU those poles move...
| Lane Gray wrote: |
| I'll ignore Georg's point: Georg was obviously one of the people pointing out that the millennium didn't start til 2001. |
Different discussion, that should be ignored here.
I prefer to move the bar instead of retuning, when everyone else plays a quarter fret-marker off |
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