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I mentioned this fretboard yesterday in another thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626218 ). One of t

• tshaddox 4y ago
  Yeah, that video is linked from the article I was responding to. The video certainly makes sense: he's demonstrating that intervals sound the same in every position and specifically that octaves are very in tune across huge distances on the fretboard. From the small clips I've heard, it sounds great to me, especially when the guitar is playing alone. Back when I played a lot of guitar I was often pretty bothered by intonation issues, even with decent gear that was setup well and didn't seem to bother other (much better) guitarists. But of course guitars often play together with 12-TET instruments that are likely to be much more accurately tuned (like a piano or organ), and it makes sense that the every-so-slightly out-of-tune nature of guitars has become part of what sounds distinctively guitar-like, especially the specific tuning you're likely to hear a lot with common guitar chord voicing in many styles of music.