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Old 12-07-2017, 07:15 AM
D. Churchland D. Churchland is offline
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Originally Posted by charles Tauber View Post
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.
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.
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