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The steel-string acoustic guitar typically has a scale slightly shorter than the classical instrument, the most common scales ranging between short scale (24 inches (610 mm)) and long scale (25.5 inches (650 mm)). Small travel guitars and guitars specifically designed for children can have even shorter scales.
The Byrdland guitar has a thin L-5-style body and originally came with a narrower neck that featured a relatively short 23 1/2-inch scale length to aid in playing difficult chords. Several different L-5 hollow-body models have appeared over the years, including the L-5 Signature and the L-5 Studio.
In addition to the thinline body, another feature of the Gibson ES-350T is its shortened length of only 597 mm (23 1 ⁄ 2 inch compared to Gibson's standard 24 3/4 inch). It has been stated that this short scale is due to the jazz guitarist Tal Farlow, who had expressed the desire to make difficult chords and melodies easier to grasp. [1]
[4] The Silver Sky features an overall design similar to a Strat, including its three single-coil pickups, alder body, 25.5" scale length, and bolt-on maple neck, but departs from Fender's guitar with a reverse PRS-style headstock with three tuners per side, birds-in-flight fretboard inlays, and a carved treble horn to aid access to the upper ...
Vox Mando-Guitar. An octave twelve is a type of 12-string guitar fitted with a short-scale neck 15.5 inches (39 cm) and a small solid body. It is tuned one octave higher than a standard guitar, giving it the tonal range of a mandolin and enabling a guitarist to emulate the sound of a mandolin sound without learning new fingering patterns required for actual mandolins.
The bridge is a top-loaded hardtail plate secured by 5 screws, with 6 cast metal saddles on a 2 1/16" E-to-e spacing. The '51 uses a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and a single-coil (R≈3.5kΩ) pickup in the neck position.
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The X of its scalloped bracing pattern is shifted forward (toward the sound hole) by approximately one inch, making the lower bout top vibrate more freely/responsive, and resulting in a very potent and bass-rich guitar. D28E: A very limited run version of the D-28 with special pickups placed at the end of the fretboard and near the bridge.