Food for Thought!!

[garybaldy]

[RJVB]

What, AutoTune is that bad at what it does?

[Jabberwocky]

Not exactly. The equal temperament tuning of the guitar means that certain intervals are never truly in tune.

An autotune digital guitar pedal or device with negligible latency could solve this problem without resorting to the use of squiggly-wiggly frets. I don't know what it does to natural tone though.

True Temperament Frets Explained

[RJVB]

Not exactly. The equal temperament tuning of the guitar means that certain intervals are never truly in tune.

My point exactly. And certain intervals are more out of tune than others; thirds are particularly bad if you're used to just intonation (or even baroque and earlier temperaments).

And all that is assuming the frets are installed correctly and the saddle (and possibly nut) has the correct compensation.

[garybaldy]

Yet other of my childish posts that wasn't meant to be serious

[RJVB]

FWIW, evidently I got your intention ... but welcome to the club!

The number of times I didn't try to give a smart-ass funny wrong answer in physics class back in 2ndary school - and somehow managed to get it right...

Nowadays it's more that people don't understand and thus take me seriously.

[Gitfiddler]

Who needs frets anyway!

[Hammertone]

...Nowadays it's more that people don't understand and thus take me seriously.

Don't worry, I don't take you seriously.

[omphalopsychos]

I'll throw in my hot take: fretless guitars sound disgusting.

[garybaldy]

Don't worry, I don't take you seriously.

I'm glad.
Christian tends to keep things lighthearted albeit very informative - another Brit!! We are the only ones that are allowed to use the word Brit these days. If anyone else does, we're offended.

[RJVB]

Who needs frets anyway!

I'm with Oma in how most people make fretless guitars sound worse than an oud, but I got a chuckle over the demonstration of having pure intervals in open tuning. I hope he doesn't count on having a pure octave (or any other interval that's the sum of 2 smaller, pure intervals)

Don't worry, I don't take you seriously.

[Rickco]

I'm glad.
Christian tends to keep things lighthearted albeit very informative - another Brit!! We are the only ones that are allowed to use the word Brit these days. If anyone else does, we're offended.

Off topic but not wishing to offend and being an old insular American who has used the term Brit since the before the Beatles, what would be the acceptable replacement? Please bear in mind to many older Americans our total image of "Brits" are the Beatles, Monty python, Benny hill, Churchill and fish and chips in newspaper. So what would you "Brits" prefer to be called? (just in case i get a gig in a retirement home in London)

[garybaldy]

Off topic but not wishing to offend and being an old insular American who has used the term Brit since the before the Beatles, what would be the acceptable replacement? Please bear in mind to many older Americans our total image of "Brits" are the Beatles, Monty python, Benny hill, Churchill and fish and chips in newspaper. So what would you "Brits" prefer to be called? (just in case i get a gig in a retirement home in London)

Personally have no issues being called anything. BTW I'm an older Brit!!

[Hammertone]

Off topic but not wishing to offend and being an old insular American who has used the term Brit since the before the Beatles, what would be the acceptable replacement? Please bear in mind to many older Americans our total image of "Brits" are the Beatles, Monty python, Benny hill, Churchill and fish and chips in newspaper. So what would you "Brits" prefer to be called? (just in case i get a gig in a retirement home in London)

Wanker.

[Rickco]

well then , right o ol chap?

[Christian Miller]

Off topic but not wishing to offend and being an old insular American who has used the term Brit since the before the Beatles, what would be the acceptable replacement? Please bear in mind to many older Americans our total image of "Brits" are the Beatles, Monty python, Benny hill, Churchill and fish and chips in newspaper. So what would you "Brits" prefer to be called? (just in case i get a gig in a retirement home in London)

Brits is fine with me. We use it ourselves sometimes.

I mean it’s not generally considered necessary to refer to us as ‘citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.’


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[Irishmuso]

Personally have no issues being called anything. BTW I'm an older Brit!!

I think it would be fair to say that the term is generally applied to English people more than to those from other countries that form part of the UK.

[garybaldy]

Wanker.

What happened to Toff?!!

[stevo58]

In Germany, “Brit” is the direct-address form. When you are referring to Brits in a Brit-free room, they are called “island monkeys.”

[Al Haig]

English became the dominant culture worldwide because of their intelligence so I'm not too sure how fitting it is to call them monkeys lol.

[cmajor9]

English became the dominant culture worldwide because of their intelligence so I'm not too sure how fitting it is to call them monkeys lol.

Ironic much?

[Hammertone]

What happened to Toff?!!

Toff suggests some affluence.

[Christian Miller]

English became the dominant culture worldwide because of their intelligence so I'm not too sure how fitting it is to call them monkeys lol.

You really haven't met many Brits have you?

[garybaldy]

In Germany, “Brit” is the direct-address form. When you are referring to Brits in a Brit-free room, they are called “island monkeys.”

I hadn't heard that island monkeys was a thing.
I'm ok with the term Brit but if you use the old shortened form for the Japanese, for instance, it is most frown upon!
ps can one still use the second half of the word sauer (a food) when referring to a German? Sorry I'm out of touch.

[Al Haig]

You really haven't met many Brits have you?

I guess it's the same thing with the US. Ranks high on metrics of being advanced as a nation, and can rank not so high when you run into an average American.