Check out the frets on Frank Gambales guitar

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:24 pm

Looks like some sort of compensation worked into the lower frets under top strings. Some reckons its called TT compensation.

The way Gambale plays (like scrambled eggs) you'd wonder why he would need any compensation

sebastiaan56 · Post by **sebastiaan56** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:33 pm

link?

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:40 pm

Oh f****k...sorry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj4W15JohFc&NR=1

Localele · Post by **Localele** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:49 pm

Pretty tough job cutting the fret slots for those babies.Maybe it was just a slip of the router or there is now a big kink in the saw blade.

graham mcdonald · Post by **graham mcdonald** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:23 pm

I think it might have been someone here in Canberra who came up with that fretting idea. I could never work out how you could do any fret work on it. The Gambales used to own the main music shop here and they were trying to sell the idea as a retro-fit for a while. I just put it down to yet another of those people who just can't accept that guitars will never play exactly in tune. Most people get over it and just play music instead.

cheers

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:06 pm

This intonation correction method is called 'fretwave'.

It's been around for a while but hasn't yet really taken off like
the Buzz Feiten system has.

cheers ,Stu

Bob Connor · Post by **Bob Connor** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:18 pm

There was a discussion on this over at the OLF a while back that was started by Arnt.

Here's a link to it.

http://www.luthiersforum.com/forum/view ... ilit=+fret

I don't think I'd like to be dressing these suckers.

Kim · Post by **Kim** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:44 pm

Ahh Jazz, that strange genre' of music which sees a number of technically brilliant musicians take to the stage together and perform their favorite piece for an hour without a break........... even if they are all different tunes.

Cheers

Kim

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon May 11, 2009 6:24 am

Kim wrote:Ahh Jazz, that strange genre' of music which sees a number of technically brilliant musicians take to the stage together and perform their favorite piece for an hour without a break........... even if they are all different tunes.

Cheers

Kim

Best description of modern jazz I've seen.
Last time I saw Gambale he had a head of booffy black hair & slimmer waistline. Even attempted to learn his sweep picking technique but ran out of skill long before I got to sound like him

& I reckon could do a fret job like that one on the Strat Im sure..............................after a whole bottle of cask strength single malt

aussieadam · Post by **aussieadam** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:47 am

... I don't mean any disrespect, Frank's instructional video's and guitar guest collumns added a lot to my understanding of fretboard layout, music theory, and I spent months working on his picking style...

But to me this seems even less musical than the stuff he was doing in the 80's...?? Only back then you could put it down to being a bit of a craze...

Why is it that the more a lot of these guys learn about music... the less actual "music" they make...? Holdsworth, Gambale, Scofield, Stern... they seem to go backwards with experience...?
In my eyes even Pat Martino, and dare I say it Joe Pass ( two of my all time favourites ) seem to be in the same boat, the music became/is becoming more of a departure as it goes on?

George Benson on the other hand... Woah! got to see him in '07! He just keeps gettin better!!

oh and yeah... Whacky frets

-Adam

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Wed May 13, 2009 12:40 pm

Could be that the musos are changing. But could be your tastes are changing as well. Its certainly the case for me....I used to love Joe Pass's "old stuff" but these days I get more enjoyment out of watching Schofield and co.

Benson.....hes put out some absolute cr*p over the years. I did see him in Concert in NZ just after Breezin' came out. The concert was great but only because he played mainly stuff that he hadnt recorded and released on record.

Stern....Ive always found his solo work fairly uninspiring but when hes playing with others (eg Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham) hes hot. I think hes one of those guys who belongs in the band not in front of same.

Just my opinions and when youre talking whats good and bad in music its all opinions.

aussieadam · Post by **aussieadam** » Wed May 13, 2009 2:25 pm

when youre talking whats good and bad in music its all opinions

couldn't agree more...! thats the beauty of it,

and these guys obviously have their fans (and lot's of them!) or they would've vanished years ago...

perhaps I should've said that the more 'abstract' the music becomes? and it's almost as though it's a competition to see who can superimpose the most augmented triads... or displace the most octaves... but it could just be that their ears are bored with the sounds we are accustomed to.

and yeah, my musical tastes are constantly changing... allthough mine is going the opposite way. I used to think it was about how many notes you could jam in... now it's all about how few you can get away with... soon I won't even need to string my guitar!

kiwigeo · Post by **kiwigeo** » Wed May 13, 2009 4:50 pm

aussieadam wrote: I used to think it was about how many notes you could jam in... now it's all about how few you can get away with... soon I won't even need to string my guitar!

Thats something Miles Davis excelled at...sometimes he excelled a bit too well at it and didnt play enough notes.

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