Posted by John Pappajohn on July 2, 2002, 11:02 pm You read my mind -- I do indeed hit the strings with a big 'wind-up', and need to closely examine the dynamics of this before adjusting the action. Thank you for your insight. John --Previous Message--
John,
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: I play two guitars, a Taylor (for standard
: tuning, and non-slide) and a Dean
: resonator for slide (mostly in open G and
: open D).
: I sometimes hit the strings pretty hard, ala
: Patton. For this reason, I like to set the
: action fairly high, especially on the
: resonator. But this creates a problem --
: when I capo, the intonation can be
: affected.
: Has anyone thoughts or experiences to offer
: on the trade-off between accurate
: intonation and comfortably-high action?
: TIA.
: John
: I also prefer fairly high action, but you are
: right, if it gets too high, intonation can
: suffer when capoing, or in general, up the
: neck. If you have problems with buzzing
: at a lower action, you may want to take a
: look at your method of producing tone in
: the right hand. I've found that if I
: produce my tone by being on the string,
: either with thumb or fingers, and then
: pushing or pulling the digit through the
: string, I can play quite hard with
: virtually no buzzing, even on a guitar
: without high action. If, one the other
: hand, I generate tone by moving the thumb
: or finger freely through the string from
: some distance away I am likely to get a
: buzzy, uncontained-sounding attack no
: matter how high the action is. So you
: might want to experiment with different
: right hand methods of producing sound, to
: see if you can get a sound of the size you
: want with a lower action that will avoid
: intonation problems.
: John
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