I’ve seen instruments with parallel frets, sloping frets and no frets, so what the heck is this ?
The rythem guitarist in nickelback
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Its a thing called “true temperament frets”, an attempt to solve the inherent intonation issues with fretted instruments.
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Totally understand. Thank you, never come across this until today. Did it work.?
I’ve never played one. I presume they work to a point, but I wouldn’t want to try bending!
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Samurai Guitarist showed it in his recent video.
But I’m sure that with my level of playing there won’t be any noticable difference.
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Ditto, interesting tests on youtube though. 
Thanks all.
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This is one of the best reviews I’ve seen of it. Phil says bending is no different on it.
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Interesting concept. This is a good article about it.
I was surprised to read you can’t tune it the normal way.
To tune a True Temperament guitar, you need to tune each string to a specific pitch that doesn’t exactly match what a normal guitar tuner says open strings should be.
Here is what you need to tune each string to:
- High E string: E4 -1 cent
- B String: B3 -1 cent
- G String: G3 +4 cents
- D String: D3 +2 cents
- A String: A2 0 cent (same as a normal guitar)
- Low E String: E2 -2 cents