Jehle Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 In my quest to find guitar plans, I ran across this... Guitar of the Month? http://www.frets.com/FRETSPages/History/Di...0/diaz1590.html Quote Link to comment
krazyderek Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 cooool!!! tie on frets!!! Quote Link to comment
Roli Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 Sustain, huh? Quote Link to comment
Guitarfrenzy Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 omg They should have made a fret bevel, like Brian shows, and got that joker staightened out.. lol... All I can say is "OUCH".. that guitar would be painful to play lol.. Quote Link to comment
westhemann Posted September 2, 2003 Report Share Posted September 2, 2003 the fret spacing looks incorrect Quote Link to comment
Jehle Posted September 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 the fret spacing looks incorrect Ah, this guitar is from the time when there was an "H" note. Now the notes only go up to G#. The fret spacing allows for you to play the "H" note. Quote Link to comment
westhemann Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 is this the same sort of thing as when the world was black and white until the 50s when everything all of the sudden had color? Quote Link to comment
Jehle Posted September 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 is this the same sort of thing as when the world was black and white until the 50s when everything all of the sudden had color? Well, actually I'm not kidding about the H note. I saw an old manuscript at the Smithsonian and there was a piece of sheet music that actually had an H note written on it. I've never heard of an H note before, so I can only guess that some plonker in the 1500's wrote it down wrong. It was probably an A written down wrong. The difference between A and H are subtle. How would you like to be imortalized in the Smithsonian for thinking that there was an H note? Quote Link to comment
Roli Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 I do not know about other nations, but here in Hungary we call the B note H. Germans also do this way, if I'm correct. LOL, and what you name Bb there, that's simply called B here. Just for simplicity, you know... Quote Link to comment
Guitarfrenzy Posted September 3, 2003 Report Share Posted September 3, 2003 I read an aritcle one time where Steve Vai was talking about the guitar he had made that was based on another scale system.. I forgot the name of it.. but it had way more than 12 notes to a scale. Hummm wonder if I can find that old article.. I see that he never played it much though lol.. Maybe that's what led to the 7 string.. Quote Link to comment
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