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Who likes a short scale?
Who out there likes or even perhaps prefers a shorter than normal scale length? For those of us who primarily pick in our living rooms or front porches is there a trend towards shorter than short scale guitars. Can we be satisfied to get the job done and make some nice music with a GS mini, a Dread Jr or a Taylor GT. I’m sitting here this morning just putting a smile on my own face with a scaled down offering and it makes me think what is really necessary to enjoy oneself.
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I like short scale guitars because of all the positive reasons as they are easier to finger and reach chords. Plus, I like the more rounded sound instead of the taught sound of long scale guitars. The term normal in this situation is not something I agree with. Guitars were built with the 24+ scale many years before they came up with the 25+ scale, so what's normal?
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Waterloo WL-S, K & K mini Waterloo WL-S Deluxe, K & K mini Iris OG, 12 fret, slot head, K & K mini Follow The Yellow Brick Road |
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My Eastman E2om-cd is a 24.9" scale and my Guild Starfire II Dynasonic is a 24.75".
I like how the slightly shorter scale offers the comfort of a little less tension (tuned to A440). |
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I don't dislike short scale guitars. I have one (Kopp K-35) and it's a great guitar. But I find I can get a little heavy handed at times and like the standard scale length a little better in most situations. Especially drop tunings. No right or wrong...just different...which is a good thing IMO.
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I lean towards long-scale because I capo up the neck and things can get a little tight the further up you go.
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Martin D18 Gibson J45 Martin 00015sm Gibson J200 Furch MC Yellow Gc-CR SPA Guild G212 Eastman E2OM-CD |
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I love my 000. Wonderful all rounder. I really feel the difference in playability when attempting fancy stuff. Sweet as a nut.
Sounds just great in drop tunings too. No doubt it lacks a little bit of punch/projection on single notes but only relative to a very, very good OM, and only played A v B.
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McNally Dread Adi/Hog, OM-12 Spruce/EIr, OM Cedar Walnut 000-28 Lowden S32J |
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I like short a short scale.
....standard too! All Scales Matter. : )
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I like the short scale (24") on my 12-fret parlor. All my big guitars are long scale.
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#9
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My wife - she's learned to play on a Baby Taylor and anything else seems grotesque and unwieldy.
D.H. |
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I actually tend to prefer short scale guitars most of the time for my playing style. For finger style blues and fingerstyle in general my 000 size guitars work great, and for strumming duty my J-45 Vintage works great. I do like a Martin D-18 (or 28) for flat-picking (which my J-45 can do though I don't think quite as well) but otherwise I'm happy with my short scale guitars.
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Come to think of it both of my wife's guitars are short scale too. But she'll play a couple of my dreads with standard scale every once in a while...
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I prefer the shorter scale length but fractions matter. My Gibson J-45 is 24.75" and is perfect, love my Dreadnought Jr. too at 24" however the GS-Mini at 23.5" felt too short. I have a hard time, especially finger picking switching between standard and short scale but I'm sure it partially comes down to me not being a very experienced player though.
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To be honest, regarding scale length preference , it’s all just what I happen to presently be used to at the moment over the years. But, since in recent times I have been playing my short scale neck guitars, I’m finding I like the short scale best.
Just my experience. QM aka “Jazzman” Jeff |
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A GS Mini was my "gateway" guitar for short scale, a concept that after many decades of casual playing I had no exposure to. I simply found it more comfortable to play and have graduated to a Cargo (really short) and Emerald X7. The great sounding and beautiful but less comfortable 000M was the first casualty and the Mini, while I liked it well enough, didn't have all the benefits of the carbon guitars.
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I wish I could find a 24 inch scale length on par with my 000-18. That would certainly be a keeper.
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