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Originally Posted by BF1618
I believe that it's supposed to cancel out any weird sounds that may resonate the strings above the nut.
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Ah, okay, now that makes sense, in a limited way.
Limited, because as anyone can see, there's far more cloth there than is strictly needed to eliminate excess string vibrations:
So he's taking a cure for a basic, easily solved problem, and expanding it to use as an excuse for a dramatic visual flourish.
More power to him. It doesn't appear as though he's doing scissors kicks while he plays, or spitting blood onstage like this guy:
so if hanging a little drapery from his guitar works for him, I don't have a problem with it.
But you can get the same overtone canceling effect from strips of leather or felt woven in between the strings, without calling attention to it. It just depends how you want to address the problem, I guess.
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