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| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Re: intonation question | | Date: | Thursday, January 5, 2006 16:27:54 (EST) | | From: | Dobroeddie <Dobroeddie @...com>
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AMEN TO THAT, LARRY!
Eddie Thompson
Plant City, Fla.
Mr. Deneve (and others),
With my inherently thick Polish head that certainly does not recognize
perfect pitch if it ran
over me with a truck, I have to wonder that in the real world if my wax and
hair filled ears would
pick up such minute differences in pitch. Using the numbers provided in your
posting that each
string changes by a factor of 105.9463094 (about 6%) and say that I roughly
measure the distance
between my 4th and 5th fret, about 1 3/32 (1.093) with a scale, add 6% to
that number, and it
gives me a distance of about .066 or about 1/16 of an inch. This distance
would diminish even more
as we move up the neck. So when I sit in my quiet office in front of the
computer and move my bar
on the string about 1/16th of an inch at the 5th fret, I can only very very
barely distinguish a
difference in tone from one position to another in a quiet room. Maybe
certain South American bats
or audio instrumentation engineers are more adept than I am though.
In the real world playing with others who commonly have a few beers under
their belt, standing
next to a ojnab player whose Keith tuners are slipping if not the banjo
player himself, also
standing next to a fiddler whose squeaking and squawking resembles an old
rusty door hinge, who is
standing next to a base player who is not only making the floor and my
innards vibrate and sending
it all through speakers that are slowly moving across the floor out to an
audience who has even
more beers under their belt who is very likely paying more attention to the
foxy gal next to him
more than the reso players intonation being off by a few nano hertz's. I am
beginning to wonder if
we aren't over spitting hairs a bit here. Now I am very glad that fine
lutherie is not like
playing horse shoes or tossing hand granades and that is what makes the
difference between a
finely built guitar such as a DeNeve and a Chung Fu reso or some such thing
made in a Chinese
prison camp. Now if you are pulling your hair out over such things making
your guitars, I will
personally forgive you if your frets are out by an angstrom (10 x 10 -17th)
or two. Keep the hair
please. ...or are we a bit late for that? (;>)
Larry
back to deep lurk mode
SF Bay Area
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