back to list

Buzz Feiten's tuning

🔗Aline Surman <stick@...>

4/29/1998 6:43:02 AM
In the June 98 issue of Guitar Player, on p86, there's a huge ad for
guitars using the new Buzz Feiten system for intonation. What makes me a
bit ill is 2 things: one, as far as I can tell, after playing guitar for
33 years, if the guitar keeps the same 12 note/octave eq temp
arrangement, it will still be out of tune with the harmonic series, no
matter what else you do. And two, the rather awestruck approval of this
system by numerous prominent mags, including GP, has shown me that the
tuning movement has a long way to go before folks even know what the hell
we're talking about. I have written, repeatedly, the editors of various
music mags, commenting on the innacuracies of Feiten's "innovation," and
his ignorance of terms such as well tempered and meantone; I have offered
to write an article which would explain what is really going on, and how
12 eq is faulty at the very core...no one has shown any interest. And
yes, it bums me out a bit to see such total ignorance of what tuning is,
or what it really could be...a lot of musicians read GP, and Feiten is
totally misleading folks by letting them think that mechanical
adjustments will resolve the out of tune 12 eq system...Hstick