From: fscll@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Lott)
Newsgroups: alt.guitar
Subject: Re: Buying a GOOD guitar.. any suggestions?
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:16:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.1992Apr15.131626.1
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <1992Apr15.035515.2120@cam.compserv.utas.edu.au>, cmurray@esk (Christopher John Murray) writes:
>>> 
>>Well, I don't think Malmsteen's vibrato is exaggerated, he just utilizes a
>>classical vibrato... which is supposed to be a bit wider than most 'rock' or
>>other idioms... 
>>but for the real question... 
> 
> I thought classical vibrato was a vibrato which raised and lowered the note,
> as in a voilin vibrato, the vibrato you get by varying finger pressure on
> a scalloped fingerboard will, like most guitar vibrato, only vibrato
> above the note.  sorry if I'm being picky.


No flame intended here but.... 

Not exactly.. the VIBRATO of Malmsteen has nothing to do with the scallped
board... my point was that his Vibrato is (like Rhoads' was) side-to-side in a 
classical fashion which leads to a smoother but harder to learn imho
vibrato...   the point of the scallops is to allow a BENDING sound without the
speed change needed to do a bend in the normal manner.. it is impossible to
work a bend in at the speeds malmsteen is playing but pressing harder only
takes a fraction of the time.. 

>>
>>There is undoubtedly a PLAYING difference between the scalloped fretboard and
>>tall frets... the thing about the scalloped board is it allows you to add
>>subtle semi-tones at a faster speed than you can bending a string... 
> 
> yeah but if you _press_ on thick/high frets in the same way as a scalloped
> fretboard, you get just the same effect. *honest!!*


Yeah you do... but you have to press TOO HARD.. that is what I mean by the
playing difference.. if I am playing a 16 th note run up to a high bend and
back it is very easy to do on the scalloped board because I just vary the
finger p[ressure a LITTLE bit... I could do the same on ANY guitar but the
pressure I woul dhave to do would make it practically prohibitive.. I agree
the sound ends up the same but not at the same speed... 

>>
>>
>>(in much the same way I think Vai's 7-string is a good idea... or even an
>>eight string with one extra high so we could reach higher notes lower on the
>>board and one low so that we could interact with the bass plater... but I
>>thikn this despite the fact thata lot of people buy it because it is VAI'S
>>model...)
>>
>      Vai's 7 string is a damn good idea.  Guitars have been so similar
> in the mainstream we really need something like this to get popular,
> just to show guitar companies it can work, like 5 and 6 string basses.
> 

Most definitely... I still like the eight string idea! 

>      On that note.. has anyone played a Stick ?? You know, those
> weird things with ten strings..
> 

Nope.. hope someone has... so I can find out what it is like...

> -- 
>                                        /  Choose the day..
>         Email to:                     /  And choose the sign of your day..
>    cmurray@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au  /  The days divinity..first thing
>                                     /  you see ...     The Doors.
-- 
 __________________________________________________________
|  Christopher L. Lott  --- Poet and Pauper                |
|__________________________________________________________|___
|  fscll@alaska                | "And now what shall become of |
|  fscll@acad3.alaska.edu      |  us without any barbarians?   |
 ------------------------------|  Those people were a kind of  |
                               |          solution."           |
                                -------------------------------
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA