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Hey does a dulcimer have a neck? Wade?? I know it has a fretboard but.... So yeah...I'd imagine that a neckless guitar while unplayable, would probably sound HUGE!!! So there you have it. The neck is probably the single biggest tone-sucker on the whole guitar. If you could play a neckless guitar that had a body that ran from endpin to tuners...CANNON??? Nope...NUCLEAR DEVICE!
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without the neck, what do you have? nothing but a bunch of parts!! it has to go together as one!
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Maybe I'll save somebody some typing...
In THIS THREAD, Alan Carruth said: Quote:
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Rather than trying to figure out how an inanimate object affects tone, I wonder how much it affects the player who in turn hugely affects the tone.
If you're happiest with a neck that suits your body, arms, fingers, and a million other parameters, then your tone will probably be better. Things that make you more comfortable, relaxed, whatever state it is you require to play well in probably make your tone better as well. I have a cat that jumps on my head when I'm playing at home. That affects my tone a heck of lot more than anything on the guitar. |
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How much does the neck affect tone?
Long Jon, my apologies. I don't how I missed the "same box" part of your post.
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Roger Knox wrote:
"The neck has very little effect on tone in an acoustic guitar, the neck resonant frequencies don't couple with the soundboard very effectivly, so there isn't much contribution." Thanks dneal for resurrecting those posts and saving me a lot of typing. I'll just add here that you can't think about the neck independently of the rest of the guitar. Its not something like a diving board that's relatively whippy and light and is solidly anchored in concrete. It flexes more than the box, but the box flexes too. That's why your guitar can need a neck reset even when the truss rod has kept the neck straight. That static flexing is mirrored by dynamic flexing and resonances at different pitches that can sometimes alter the tone. Changing the neck changes the vibrations of the system, but so would changing the box. |
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Of course the neck affects tone.
Strum the open strings, then touch the headstock. You will feel it vibrating - that's the neck. It's also how clip-on tuners manage to get a signal. If something vibrates when you play the guitar, it is absorbing or reflecting energy and will affect the sound. How it vibrates depends on what it is made of and how it is made. It's construction will also affect the presence (or absence) of dead or wolf-notes.
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I'm convinced a very hard wood neck like Maple sounds different than a typical mahogany neck. I don't care for it. Bolt on or set in construction and other factors may affect sustain but I believe hardness density and weight of the wood neck can affect tone. I'd bet a solid metal neck wouldn't sound the same either.
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My experience has been that the wood of the neck most definitely has an impact on the sound of an acoustic guitar. It's not as dramatic or as obvious as the effect the necks have on electric guitars or banjos (which, on banjos, have an IMMENSE impact on the sound,) but there's a difference when the neck of a guitar is made of mahogany compared to when it's maple.
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