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Buzz Feiten Tuning System


Danny

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This system is fitted as standard on new Washburns and is designed to ensure constant intonation along the neck.

 

Maybe it is just my ear, but I recently purchased a Washburn bass for my son (which has the set up) and I didn't notice any particular difference between that and a well set up normal guitar bridge.

 

Countering this, a friend of mine, however, has had one fitted to his Strat and has never stopped singing its praises.

 

Advice would be to go to a guitar shop that sells Washburns and try.

 

Regards

 

WAL

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You wont get the advantages of the system without tuning the guitar with the Buzz Feiten method as well (not just the nut location change).

It just sounds like a pain in the rear to me. If I was going to do something like this I would change the nut out for an Earvana. It gives you the same thing, but you can tune normally. It's just very "unstock" looking.

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I was very skeptical about it for a long time but am a believer now. I had a '62 sg rebuilt a year or so ago & when I got it back I noticed it had the prettiest-sounding open E chord I've ever heard. After looking more closely I noticed the Buzz nut. Dispite it's somewhat high price, I'd put it on any guitar I gigged with.

 

My brother has perfect pitch and has been fighting guitar tunings for years. He says the Fieten system solved that problem for him.

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