Discussion on mandolin fingerboard radius
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2020
- Discussion and pros/cons of various mandolin fingerboard radiuses.
What is a fingerboard radius? (00:36)
Radius and tendinitis (05:50)
Radius at the bridge (09:45)
...and it's effect on the right hand (10:50)
Duff F5 with a small radius (14:05)
Right hand with Duff (17:50)
Effects of flattening the fingerboard (18:50)
Elkhorn F5 with 16" radius (19:50)
Summary (22:50) - Hudba
Hi Kinsey love your knowledge /experience mate. Really enjoyed the fingerboard video. I’m watching this 4 years after you posted but it’s obvious your passion and experience coming through. Cheers AA
Bryan. I’m in the market for a better quality mandolin. I had a flat fretboard on years ago and remember it as a very easy mandolin to play. You’ve reminded me of that. Really helpful info. Thanks so much.
Really helpful Bryan
I used to play a Dearstone when I played on the road. The dearstone had a radius & wider spacing. I loved it for single noting, but I had a really hard time playing tremelos. Probably due to the wider spacing. The KM-1500 I now have is narrow & flat. It took me a little while to get used to the KY. It felt super cramped at first, but after getting used to it, I'm playing it just fine. I've learned that I do prefer a slight radius. (maybe a 12 or 14) I think I'd like the combination of the traditional "Loar" spacing with a slight radius because it gives your hand the feeling of wider spacing. For me, I think that would be the perfect balance. My main instrument is banjo & I'm of the opiion that they should have a slight radius as well. The neck I'm getting ready to put together will probably be around a 14-16.
On guitar, 12" and 16" radius is quite different because the wider fingerboard makes a wide radius seem narrower.
Pretty sure I said that somewhere in there.
May I ask what strap you are using? I need a good strap for my F style...recommendations? Thx
Those are Long Hollow flat braided. Dakota Leathers are nice but the ones I have from them are round and I like flat
do you have D-28 D-18 for sale..?
Not right now, no.
@@Bryankimsey I got acquainted with you on eBay about year ago...you had a D-18 for sale..
Hmmmm.... not me. I've never sold a guitar on eBay. I've sold stuff on Reverb, but never a D-18 there. It might've been someone selling a guitar that I'd worked on and they used my name.
"You can't really play up in here" (indicating the frets over the body)...tell that to Sierra Hull
Obviously, you can play up there if you're Sierra or any number of other players and not all of them great. You bring up Sierra... I up you with Chris Thile. At the same time LOTS of great mandolin player (like, oh, I dunno, Sam Bush? Tim O'Brien? Adam Steffey? ) scoop out or completely remove the extension on their mandolin and.... OMG.... lose those notes!!! How do they even play???
My POINT is, there are notes that run clear from the last fret all the way to the saddle and you are losing those notes by not having a fingerboard extension that runs ALL THE WAY to the saddle. How do you even play without ALL the notes??? So, obviously, you draw a line _somewhere_. And for many people, that line can be drawn well before southern Florida.
My wry sarcasm was obviously lost in translation.
Gotcha...@@Bryankimsey
I don't think my Mandolin has a fretboard radius :-(
Neither does a Gibson Loar. You're in good company. Nothing wrong with a flat fingerboard.
@@Bryankimsey Totally prefer flat fingerboards. ALL of mine (all f-styles) are flat. I really almost exclusive play only Bach and it requires a lot of alternate picking and quite a bit of string-skipping sometimes--that translate so much better for me on flat fingerboards, especially on such a small neck like a mandolin. I've PLAYED several with 10 & 12, many I've worked on in my shops, but I just can't completely warm up to that feeling.
What's funny though, after playing on most of my guitar necks which are typically scalloped AND with larger radius fretboards, I'm used to very thin profile "D" necks. I thought I wouldn't like playing so much on the common soft-V like so many mandolins have. Since I've been playing them all the time now I really got used to that and I think it's helpful on these smaller narrow necks.
~JSV