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This section only had fender and warmoth, which does not add anything to the page and in fact makes it seems suspiciously like advertising that they were here in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.50.108.50 ( talk) 00:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
"Another advantage is that the player only needs to apply a fraction of the pressure to a scalloped fingerboard to make the note sound, as compared to a traditional fingerboard. This allows the guitarist to play faster, because they don't have to invest as much effort into fretting each note."
Sources? From everything i've read (including an interview with Yngwie, who's probably the most popular guitarist who plays scalloped fretboards) and from personal experience, scalloped necks do NOT help you play faster, it's actually more difficult to play fast on a scalloped neck. necroforest 23:06, 3 December 2006
As an owner of two Fender stats one scalloped and one non scalloped I can state that the scalloped neck does not magically enable one to play faster. It in fact makes no difference at all. The amount of pressure required to fret the note is similar if not exactly the same. I don't have any sources to back this up. This is purely personal experience playing on a standard strat and a Yngwie Malmsteen strat.
I do not agree that the reason most guitarists play non-scalloped necks is because of the disadvantages of scalloping. The SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS reason is simply that scalloping is a fairly exotic guitar modification that does not appear most mainstream commercial guitar models, and most guitarists do not perform, nor have anyone perform, advanced, risky modifications on their guitars. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.96.174 ( talk) 20:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
the phrase "frets generally allow for more precise changes in pitch" is true in one sense and just the opposite of true in another sense. For a beginner, frets make intonation more precise than it would be otherwise. For a more advanced player, the precision necessary to control the nuance of a pitch so that it is higher or lower in different musical contexts is not generally aided by frets; in fact it is non-fretted instruments that allow this kind of pitch change (change within a single note instead of from note to note) to be controlled more precisely. My questions: should this be spelled out in the article? and if it should, how should it be phrased? The way I have put it here seems too wordy to me. J Lorraine 04:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I've changed "precise" to "consistent". It seems to be the word I'm looking for, but it still doesn't make the article communicate the information I've spelled out above. J Lorraine 22:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
OK, this is better (I think), and also not too wordy. J Lorraine 23:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does the neck have to fan out so much from the nut toward the bridge? Spanish guitars dont taper so much-- Light current 17:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
THe diagram is confusing. The end nearest the viewer appears to be the bridge end when if fact it is referred to as the nut end in the text. Anyone else find it confusing?-- Light current 22:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Because necks are wider at the bridge. (I know its a perspective dwg but still..).-- Light current 14:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Whats 'barely so'? 8-?-- Light current 14:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
On some modern guitars, the radius of the fingerboard changes slowly from one end of the fingerboard to the other. This is known as a "compound radius" fingerboard. The nut end of the fingerboard has a smaller radius towards the nut to ease in forming chords. The bridge end of the finger has a larger radius to prevent "fretting out" (having a string come into contact with a higher fret during a bend).
I believe that both articles cover the same subject (fretboard and its' parameters / varieties) and effectively a radius article would make a perfect section / extension for this fingerboard article. I also plan to add some more diagrams and images to illustrate radius. -- GreyCat 16:17, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, same rationale: article about scalloped fingerboard is relatively short and effectively describes a particular varity or aspect of a fretboard. It would make fingerboard article more complete, a perfect section for one. -- GreyCat 16:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
This is late, I know, but, fuck it.
I support this and your other merger proposal. -- LifeEnemy 04:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
This part makes no sense whatsoever. From examining the (ad-like) accompanying photo, I think it's supposed to be discussing instruments with differing scale lengths from the treble to the bass. None of the text manages to convey this, though. Anyone care to delete?
Along with the most recent re-addition of the ad went the deletion of the section on scoop of fretless boards. While I don't own that or any other section or article of the wikipedia, I believe it to be encyclopedic and relevant here. __ Just plain Bill 13:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I removed the external links, as they fail WP:EL; but they make sense as references. I am slapping a tag for lack of footnotes; adding them would solve the problem.-- Legionarius ( talk) 18:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
The proper term for the lengthwise curve of the fingerboard (neck, really) is "relief". This comes up much more with guitar and mandolin family instruments as the relief can be adjusted.
Bravohalo ( talk) 06:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Manufacturing of Fingerboard was recently created. While conceivably eventually meriting a stand-alone article, I feel a merge to Fingerboard is appropriate until or unless the coverages is long enough to warrant splitting. --Animalparty-- ( talk) 21:44, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
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Is the LinnStrument MIDI controller a fingerboard instrument? -- Rob Kam ( talk) 11:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
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This section only had fender and warmoth, which does not add anything to the page and in fact makes it seems suspiciously like advertising that they were here in the first place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.50.108.50 ( talk) 00:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
"Another advantage is that the player only needs to apply a fraction of the pressure to a scalloped fingerboard to make the note sound, as compared to a traditional fingerboard. This allows the guitarist to play faster, because they don't have to invest as much effort into fretting each note."
Sources? From everything i've read (including an interview with Yngwie, who's probably the most popular guitarist who plays scalloped fretboards) and from personal experience, scalloped necks do NOT help you play faster, it's actually more difficult to play fast on a scalloped neck. necroforest 23:06, 3 December 2006
As an owner of two Fender stats one scalloped and one non scalloped I can state that the scalloped neck does not magically enable one to play faster. It in fact makes no difference at all. The amount of pressure required to fret the note is similar if not exactly the same. I don't have any sources to back this up. This is purely personal experience playing on a standard strat and a Yngwie Malmsteen strat.
I do not agree that the reason most guitarists play non-scalloped necks is because of the disadvantages of scalloping. The SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS reason is simply that scalloping is a fairly exotic guitar modification that does not appear most mainstream commercial guitar models, and most guitarists do not perform, nor have anyone perform, advanced, risky modifications on their guitars. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.96.174 ( talk) 20:31, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
the phrase "frets generally allow for more precise changes in pitch" is true in one sense and just the opposite of true in another sense. For a beginner, frets make intonation more precise than it would be otherwise. For a more advanced player, the precision necessary to control the nuance of a pitch so that it is higher or lower in different musical contexts is not generally aided by frets; in fact it is non-fretted instruments that allow this kind of pitch change (change within a single note instead of from note to note) to be controlled more precisely. My questions: should this be spelled out in the article? and if it should, how should it be phrased? The way I have put it here seems too wordy to me. J Lorraine 04:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I've changed "precise" to "consistent". It seems to be the word I'm looking for, but it still doesn't make the article communicate the information I've spelled out above. J Lorraine 22:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
OK, this is better (I think), and also not too wordy. J Lorraine 23:20, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does the neck have to fan out so much from the nut toward the bridge? Spanish guitars dont taper so much-- Light current 17:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
THe diagram is confusing. The end nearest the viewer appears to be the bridge end when if fact it is referred to as the nut end in the text. Anyone else find it confusing?-- Light current 22:57, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Because necks are wider at the bridge. (I know its a perspective dwg but still..).-- Light current 14:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Whats 'barely so'? 8-?-- Light current 14:16, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
On some modern guitars, the radius of the fingerboard changes slowly from one end of the fingerboard to the other. This is known as a "compound radius" fingerboard. The nut end of the fingerboard has a smaller radius towards the nut to ease in forming chords. The bridge end of the finger has a larger radius to prevent "fretting out" (having a string come into contact with a higher fret during a bend).
I believe that both articles cover the same subject (fretboard and its' parameters / varieties) and effectively a radius article would make a perfect section / extension for this fingerboard article. I also plan to add some more diagrams and images to illustrate radius. -- GreyCat 16:17, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, same rationale: article about scalloped fingerboard is relatively short and effectively describes a particular varity or aspect of a fretboard. It would make fingerboard article more complete, a perfect section for one. -- GreyCat 16:45, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
This is late, I know, but, fuck it.
I support this and your other merger proposal. -- LifeEnemy 04:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
This part makes no sense whatsoever. From examining the (ad-like) accompanying photo, I think it's supposed to be discussing instruments with differing scale lengths from the treble to the bass. None of the text manages to convey this, though. Anyone care to delete?
Along with the most recent re-addition of the ad went the deletion of the section on scoop of fretless boards. While I don't own that or any other section or article of the wikipedia, I believe it to be encyclopedic and relevant here. __ Just plain Bill 13:15, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
I removed the external links, as they fail WP:EL; but they make sense as references. I am slapping a tag for lack of footnotes; adding them would solve the problem.-- Legionarius ( talk) 18:17, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
The proper term for the lengthwise curve of the fingerboard (neck, really) is "relief". This comes up much more with guitar and mandolin family instruments as the relief can be adjusted.
Bravohalo ( talk) 06:44, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Manufacturing of Fingerboard was recently created. While conceivably eventually meriting a stand-alone article, I feel a merge to Fingerboard is appropriate until or unless the coverages is long enough to warrant splitting. --Animalparty-- ( talk) 21:44, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
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Here's what I put at Talk:Manufacturing of Fingerboard, suggested late 2015 for merge into Fingerboard.
And I don't feel much better about
fingerboard. I see no good reason that the intents of both should not be incorporated into
frets.
Weeb Dingle (
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18:04, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Is the LinnStrument MIDI controller a fingerboard instrument? -- Rob Kam ( talk) 11:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)