So from that perspective, I can totally understand why it makes sense to take this same approach with the guitar, especially in the modern age where down tuning is more popular than ever. And when you get down to those really, really low notes on a piano, they have a way longer scale length-that’s why grand pianos have that sort of funky curved shape to them. If you look at the inside of a piano for example, you’ll notice that the strings that are tuned to higher pitches are a lot shorter in scale length.
Now, just at first blush even if you’re not really used to these types of guitars, I think the idea makes some sense. All those three things combine to make the guitar playable, allow it to intonate properly, and allow it to play like a regular guitar for the most part, even though it has different scale lengths on each string. Not only do we have the nut seated at an angle here in order to make that happen, but we also have all the frets angled in different ways and the bridge is angled as well. Then every sort of string along the way adjusts slightly longer in terms of its scale length. The gist of it is that on these guitars the high E-string has a shorter scale on it than the bottom string could be a six string or a seven string or an eighth string. What are multi-scale / fanned fret guitars? If you already know everything there is to know about these guitars and just want to know our recommendation about strings, skip to this part of the video or the strings section below.
Today we’re going to talk about why that is, what it is that multi-scale guitars do for you, what the history behind them is.Īnd of course because this is Stringjoy, we’re going to talk about what the best guitar strings are for multi-scale or fanned fret guitars. If you’ve been following modern metal, you probably see a lot more of these multi-scale or fanned fret guitars now than ever where the lowest sixth or seventh string has a longer scale than the highest string, especially in the djent genre.
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