Archive | December, 2009

The Intonation of the Gods – The “Schoenberg Set-up” Part Two

By on December 28, 2009 in Acoustic Guitar, Best Fingerstyle Guitar, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Guitar, Guitar Obsession

Schoenberg heard fingerstyle music and the sound of the guitar in a very particular way and this led him to work with a number of world-class luthiers to develop his own limited-edition line of guitars. Along the way he worked out how to set up a guitar to optimize it for fingerstyle.

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Intonation on Fingerstyle Guitar – The “Schoenberg Set-up” Part One

By on December 22, 2009 in Acoustic Guitar, Fingerpicking, Fingerstyle Guitar, Guitar Obsession, Stevie Coyle

One of the things I learned after years of frustration is: if you want correct intonation on an acoustic, you need a tech who knows acoustics. And if you want correct intonation for fingerstyle, you need a tech who gets fingerstyle. A tech who only plays electric guitar or acoustic rock probably won’t get what you need, or know how to deliver it. Enter the Schoenberg set-up.

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