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Thanks for the link too.

Take care :)]]> Guitar Players Discussion DemoEtc https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-247043 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-247018 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:46:10 +0000
Always happy to share info.
Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, Ravi's Great.
Love Harrison on sitar as well (although I think that Ravi found it hard to listen to LOL)

And, sorry about mis-spellin' yer name :oops:

It's from my Southside Chicago accent.... We say Excetera instead of Etcetera.
So my abreviation for it is always Ect. instead of Etc.

Sorry again.

Ken

ps

http://www.ancient-future.com/audio/amber.mp3

That's a link to a sound clip of guitarist Matthew Montfort.
He plays a scalloped guitar. I think he's been doin' it since '78.

If you can read music and are interested in trying to play this style of music,
he has transcribed many songs into standard music.

His band is called Ancient-Future, and is where I learned of what I know of scalloped guitars.]]> Guitar Players Discussion CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-247018 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246941 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:06:20 +0000
I'm not sure if your question is who of those two guitarists started using a scalloped board first,
or if you wanna know who ORIGINATED scalloped boards....

I don't know the answer as to who between those two...

Scalloped boards on stringed instuments have been around quite awhile though.

Some old lutes were scalloped.

In fact - in addition to all the mentioned reasons for scalloping a guitar's fretboard,
It's also done to guitars for simulating Indian and Vietnamese music.

The Indian Vina is a scalloped string instrument.

That's where McLaughlin got the idea to scallop his for Shakti.
That group formed in 1975.

I'm not sure when exactly Blackmore started doing it to his guitars.

I would have to guess though, that Blackmore originated the 'modern' use of scalloping for bends/vibrato though.

Ken Hey thanks for the info CitiZenNoir! Yah I was mostly wondering about Blackmore/McLaughlin.

Add to the veena, the sitar, which is about as scalloped as you can get - no real fingerboard at all :)

And man, could Ravi pull some mean bends on his!

Thanks again!]]> Guitar Players Discussion DemoEtc https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246941 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246937 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:18:18 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246937 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246856 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:38:27 +0000 i stand corrected, i had no idea it made all those styles and techniques easier.
the only jumbo frets i ever played made pressing the string all the way to the fretboard very difficult Difficulty depends greatly upon the string gauge and which position fret, but that and increased tuning error are certainly downsides of super-jumbo frets. Yeah, i realise this, and figured it was a given.
I should have, but saw no need to add that it was pointless (imo) considering the probabal tuning error.
my real question should have been "if you have already made contact with the fretwire, why press further to the actual fretboard?"]]> Guitar Players Discussion TwistedLefty https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246856 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246834 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:36:41 +0000
I'm not sure if your question is who of those two guitarists started using a scalloped board first,
or if you wanna know who ORIGINATED scalloped boards....

I don't know the answer as to who between those two...

Scalloped boards on stringed instuments have been around quite awhile though.

Some old lutes were scalloped.

In fact - in addition to all the mentioned reasons for scalloping a guitar's fretboard,
It's also done to guitars for simulating Indian and Vietnamese music.

The Indian Vina is a scalloped string instrument.

That's where McLaughlin got the idea to scallop his for Shakti.
That group formed in 1975.

I'm not sure when exactly Blackmore started doing it to his guitars.

I would have to guess though, that Blackmore originated the 'modern' use of scalloping for bends/vibrato though.

Ken]]> Guitar Players Discussion CitiZenNoir https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246834 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246826 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:27:19 +0000 i stand corrected, i had no idea it made all those styles and techniques easier.
the only jumbo frets i ever played made pressing the string all the way to the fretboard very difficult Difficulty depends greatly upon the string gauge and which position fret, but that and increased tuning error are certainly downsides of super-jumbo frets.]]> Guitar Players Discussion gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246826 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246605 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:55:28 +0000 the only jumbo frets i ever played made pressing the string all the way to the fretboard very difficult]]> Guitar Players Discussion TwistedLefty https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246605 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246602 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:43:34 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion DemoEtc https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246602 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246594 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:09:30 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion gnease https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/scalloped-fretboard/paged/2/#post-246594