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Topic: String Spacing (Again) Question |
Robert Harper
From: Alabama, USA
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Posted 30 May 2009 6:37 pm
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I think I am right in my belief that the distance in the string spacing is soley controled by the nut? change tunning thingimiggy and change string spacing?
Like most i am seldom wrong so don't disappoint _________________ "Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first begin to deceive" Someone Famous |
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David Doggett
From: Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 30 May 2009 9:33 pm
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For steel guitar, string spacing is most important where we pick, which is close to the changer, not the nut. Therefore, it is spacing at the changer that is most important. Why there should be a difference between the changer and the nut, I will never understand.
Regular guitar is completely different. The optimum string spacing for fingering chords with the left hand may not be the same as optimum spacing for picking with the right hand. For that reason, most guitars these days have closer spacing at the nut than at the saddle. This convention seems to have carried over to many steel guitars, although there is no reason for it. |
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Robert Harper
From: Alabama, USA
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Posted 31 May 2009 6:11 am Tunning Assembly
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What I wasn't clear on, isn't it just a matter of changing the turner mechanism to change string spacing. Why is there two different spacing string spacing anyway. I never thought of a guitar. So, they are also different. What is the spacing on a guitar? Hey I am just curious. If I was a cat, I would have needed 10,000 lives _________________ "Oh what a tangled web we weave when we first begin to deceive" Someone Famous |
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John Bechtel
From: Nashville, Tennessee, R.I.P.
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Posted 31 May 2009 6:37 pm
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The most common spacings for 8-string steels is Bridge = 3/8”, Nut = 5/16”. Most common spacings for 6-strings is even wider! The most common spacing for 10-string or even 11 or 12-string steels is Bridge = 11/32”, Nut = 9/32”. _________________ <marquee> Go~Daddy~Go, (No), Go, It's your Break Time</marquee> L8R, jb
My T-10 Remington Steelmaster |
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