frisell's neck

["anti:clockwise" <anticlockwise@tensionheadache.org>]

well, i guess i did not describe accurately:
what i could swear i saw was bill f.'s hands on the machines, gently 
tweaking them,
not the "neck rolf" as described by many weighers-in...

but hell! if i'm wrong, isn't that what endorsement deals are for?

hook me up,
a:c


At 01:01 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, Douglas Baldwin (among many others) wrote:


>Quick thoughts: a set of strings exerts about 100-120 pounds of tension 
>on a
>neck - largely parallel to the neck, to be sure, but that's a lot of
>poundage. Adding a little wobble to the pitch with your hand on the neck 
>is
>like changing string gauge for a second - an additional shift of maybe 10 
>or
>15 pounds. It's also like pulling up on a tremolo bar. Not a huge
>difference. Also, I've noticed that my own guitars and basses tend to
>drop/rise as much as 25 cents when a major change in humidity occurs. 
>Also,
>I've done guitar repairs for many years and I've never seen a single
>instrument with damage from this technique. Also, I've been doing it to my
>own guitars for almost thirty years, including the occasional 
>Belew-inspired
>pull-back, causing the strings to "fret out" and squeal, with no apparent
>damage. Also, just moving a guitar from horizontal/table position to
>vertical/playing position can generate a pitch shift of 5 cents or so. So 
>my
>belief system embraces the guitar neck as a flexible item. Mild neck
>wrenching probably should'nt  critical. But I am, after all, The Coyote.
>Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
>coyotelk@optonline.net