Thread: Nut Width
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Old 03-08-2014, 04:39 PM
Gcunplugged Gcunplugged is offline
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If you play fingerstyle, you may find the string spacing at the saddle to be more critical than at the nut. I find that my fretting hand easily adjusts to various nut widths. But my picking hand is another story.

The wider spacing at the saddle causes me to have to "reach" for the outer strings and miss notes that just seem natural on narrower spacing. If I go down to reach notes on the high E string, then I miss notes on the low E, and vice versa. So chord shapes that use 4 or 5 strings (C or D, in 1st position for example) are no problem. But picking 1 and 6 simultaneously (such as a 1st position G) cause me problems when on wider saddle spacing units.

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