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Rarely, but I do.
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I'm not a cutaway guy, BUT, I do own one because I play lead and do play 12-17 fret.
Infact, I use to own a few a while back. I can never go without one. |
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Sure do use those frets, but the cutaway is a also good place to put your coiled up strap in the case.
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A couple of slack key pieces have me up as high as 17; a little fast but nothing fancy, so I'm able to do it without a cutaway. So really no need for one.
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I have one guitar with a cutaway and I do go up there to those rarefied frets above 12. WHat's more, having the cutaway encourages me to find stuff to do up in the high frets. I can do okay with a standard body and 14-fret neck (which is what I have, for the most part) but the cutaway does open up additional possibilities.
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I'd be fine without that guitar and without messing around higher than the 12th fret. It's not essential to my playing enjoyment. But I have the capability to play up there, and I'm encouraged to do so when it becomes an option while I play that particular guitar. It's a nice change of pace, IMO. |
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yes. Enough to make it worthwhile to own a guitar with a cutaway.
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Yes, I use them. In fact, if I could give all my guitars an add-on, it would be a 22nd fret extension on the treble side of the fingerboard. I play in key of D a lot and that would give me access to a high C# and D via a fingerboard extension. Some people don't play that high because they are chording and strumming, and that is pretty much out of reach. I do a lot of acoustic backing of other players and do stray up there when playing lead, or even occasionally when soloing. Other reasons some folks don't play that high on acoustic guitars are: Their guitars don't intonate well 'up there' Their guitars don't sound that good 'up there' Their style doesn't lend itself to playing that high on the neck I sure don't live 'up there', but I have at least 5 songs in our arrangements where I'm playing parallel 6ths or 3rds above the 15th fret, in addition to other songs where I play solo notes and bends at the 17th fret. They are much easier on my cutaway. |
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Count me in for the cutaway. I'm often up to 15th or 17th fret.
At first I thought cutaway looked funny, now I think guitars without them look like something is missing. |
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I certainly don't need a cutaway unless its a 12 fret guitar. I do occasionally get up the fingerboard quite a ways, but as long as it has a 14 fret neck join I'm OK. I typically like the looks of instruments without cutaways, but some luthiers (Olson, Ryan, Somogyi, and others) build cutaways that look pretty darn nice.
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I do capo at the 7th fret on some songs so i do play the 10th fret. |
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For me it's easy...I don't like cutaways on acoustic guitars and I don't play on that part of the neck.
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I play little lead lines on my 12 fretnon cutaway 000 all the time. Past the bout up to the last fret.
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