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RE: Guitar intonation fixers :Novax fanned frets

🔗"Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@...>

5/14/1998 3:45:01 PM
>While Buz Feiten's system is the latest in bettering the guitar's
>intonation,there is (at least I hope there still is) another older and
>much more blatant and obvious system.
>A luthier,Ralph Novak, invented a system with a fanned fret layout where
>the spacing between frets is wider on the lower (6th) string side and
>narrower on the higher (1st) string side.

I don't think that addresses intonation at all. It's superior tone that
Novak's system provides. It's kind of like on a harp or piano, where the
higher strings are shorter.