Here’s Grant discussing what we need to know to set up a new banjo.
If you’re wondering, the banjo in the video is a Deering Calico.
MORE →Here’s Grant discussing what we need to know to set up a new banjo.
If you’re wondering, the banjo in the video is a Deering Calico.
MORE →Today we’re going back to The Twelfth Fret Repair Shop and continue our look at setting up a Strat Trem. Here we will upgrade the tuning machines and clean up the bridge and nut.
MORE →Welcome to The Twelfth Fret Repair Shop where we will take an in-depth look at setting up a Strat Trem and add locking tuners.
MORE →So, if it isn’t what the HR people tell you you’re getting, what’s compensation?
In musical terms, compensation is an adjustment to string length made to allow for proper intonation – it accounts for the effects of strings being stretched when fretted.
A basic reality of fretted musical instruments is that frets aren’t placed in mathematically perfect divisions of the scale. Instead, they are placed according to a tempered system. Pianos are also tuned in this way.
MORE →One of the most necessary and useful tools is the six-inch ruler. Sometimes called a “machinist’s ruler”, these are made of metal and are graduated, or divided, in at least sixty-fourths of an inch (1/64″). Some models show hundredths of an inch or are metric; what matters is that the graduations are small, because what seems a small fraction to the eye can make a large difference to the hand.
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