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Originally Posted by charles Tauber
That's one possible variable that might have contributed to the even response.
In the late 1970's Charles Fox made a guitar that had 6 individual bridges, each with its own saddle. He found that it lacked sympathetic resonance between strings, which he attributed to the disjoint bridge pieces.
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Gibson tried that before as well around the 1930s. I suspect they didn't continue it because it was more of a manufacturing issue than a tonal one.