Most guitar manufacturers that produce budget priced acoustic guitars typically save costs by installing a plastic saddle and nut instead of using bone. Bone costs more than plastic. It makes good business sense using plastic saddles and nuts on value priced guitars as it helps keep the street price lower for the consumer.
Plastic saddles are more brittle than bone and are subject to breakage over time. Plastic saddles are not high density in structure compared to bone. Bone saddles will transfer the string’s vibrational energy through the bridge and the sound board or the top of the guitar much better. You will find bone nuts and saddles on all higher end guitars for this reason.
I recently purchased a new budget Yamaha FG830 for $340.00. This is the perfect guitar for vacations and for keeping around my office desk. I won't weep buckets of tears if it gets dented or scratched which is a plus. This model Yamaha guitar has a solid spruce top and laminated rosewood back and sides. When I first got it, I thought it sounded really good for the price. I tried different string brands in search for a boost of the low end. I was pretty much pleased with the purchase. Then I noticed when I would push it hard banging out full chords that it sounded a little muddy, meaning note separation was okay but not great.
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I decided to do some research so I Googled “Yamaha FG 830 bone saddles” and as luck would have it; I found a compensated bone saddle on Amazon for $20.00. I read all the reviews to make sure that it would fit this specific guitar model. After I received the saddle, I methodically and slowly sanded down the saddle to match the height of the original plastic saddle. I repeated this process about six times until it was perfect. After I installed the saddle, I noticed right away the guitars overall sound quality went up several notches. Now my guitar had improved note separation and playing full chords sounded much better during soft and hard strumming. The lows were better and the highs were less shrill. The bottom line, the guitar sounded more “musical” to my ears.
With a little bit of research and for very little money, you can take you budget guitar to a higher musical level with a bone saddle replacement. And if you want to take it a step further, install bone string pins which will also help with tuning stability and sound transference. Look up Bob Colosi for bone pins, he's the best in the business!During The Smashing Pumpkins’ recent acoustic tours, Billy noticed that adding brass bridge pins to his Yamaha L-Series acoustics added upper-mid harmonics, which are frequencies that a live audience can feel and hear for a better experience. The low-mids also become more balanced. Adding this upgrade was essential to him for his signature acoustic.
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A reevaluation of string spacing, string height, fingerboard binding, and neck taper led to a new neck shape that better fits today’s traditional players. The new design offers stable grip and smooth playability over the full length of the neck.
The SRT Zero Impact Passive Pickup system is a newly developed passive type pickup configuration designed to minimize the pickup’s impact on the tone and traditional appearance of the instrument. The system utilizes individual piezoelectric elements for each string to faithfully reproduce the dynamic sound of the L Series and give the instrument outstanding presence when playing in a band.*L56, 36, 26 don't have this Pickup.
Through precise control of temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure, the molecular properties of the wood can be manipulated into a more acoustically ideal condition, similar to the molecular characteristics of woods in instruments that have been played for years.
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New 5-ply neck designs are constructed of rosewood and mahogany plies. The design integrates the neck, head, and body into a single unit creating a powerful, rich sound. This approach also creates a strong, stable neck that resists twisting and warping.
The LJ body shape is designed to provide guitarists with a comfortable fit when seated. While volume output is a little less than the LL, the LJ offers a wide dynamic range, a low-end with strong presence, and a crisp tone that accommodates a wide range of playing styles from lead to strumming.The body works like the speaker of an acoustic guitar – it’s the biggest thing that dictates how a guitar will sound.
Vibration of the guitar’s strings is transmitted to the top of the body via the bridge which in turn transmits vibrations to the back and sides. The sound of the guitar is the result of these 3 sides and the air inside the body moving together. A small change in any element of the body – shape, size or material – will change the sound of the guitar.
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The human hand is incredibly sensitive, so the exact shape and size of a guitar’s neck makes a huge difference to how the guitar feels, but the neck also has a substantial influence on the instrument’s tone and sustain.
So it doesn’t twist or warp, the hardest, densest woods are used to make necks: mahogany, rosewood, nato, padauk, and sometimes maple. Necks can be carved from a single piece of wood, or from several pieces joined together for added strength and rigidity. Yamaha combines mahogany with rosewood, padauk, or ebony in three piece and five piece necks, blending the strength and sound profiles of the different woods for the desired result.
Although primarily a playability issue, the shape of a neck also affects its overall mass, which has an effect on tone – more mass means a fatter, thicker tone. The profile of the neck can range from a somewhat flattened “D” through a rounded “D” to a distinct “V” shape. The choice is deeply personal, and Yamaha has spent many years researching and refining neck shapes to build neck shapes which suit the different characters of each guitar model while balancing comfort and playability with strength, stability and great tone.
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The length of a guitar’s neck, also called the scale length, changes the feel and sound of a guitar. A shorter neck, like the neck of an FS which is just a few millimetres shorter than standard, will feel more comfortable and will give a guitar a brighter, clearer tone.
The bridge is where the strings anchor to the top of the guitar and on an acoustic guitar usually consists of two main components: the bridge base and the saddle. The saddle rests in a groove in the bridge base, which is glued directly to the top of the guitar. Holes are drilled through the bridge and top of the guitar for the strings to pass through. Wedge shaped bridge pins hold the strings in place.
The bridge has two core functions – transmission of string vibrations to the guitar’s body, and control of the string length, which determines tuning accuracy along the fretboard (referred to as the guitar’s intonation).
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To help string vibrations be transmitted efficiently to the body with minimum damping, relatively hard materials are used for both the bridge base and saddle. The bridge base is generally made of a dense hardwood such as ebony or rosewood, while the saddle will be made of hard resin or bone. Ivory was considered the best material in the past, but has been illegal for many years. New synthetic materials are becoming popular due to a good balance of tone, durability and sustainable production.
The materials used for the bridge have a considerable effect on the guitar’s tone – harder materials like bone give a clearer, brighter tone but are more expensive, more difficult to work with and more fragile.
To maintain proper intonation for all six strings, so a string played at the 12th fret is exactly on octave above the open pitch, the saddle is installed at a precisely calculated angle, with the high E string end a little closer to the neck than the low E string end. The third (G) string sometimes requires a slight offset in the saddle to achieve proper intonation. On an acoustic guitar, this can’t be adjusted easily, so it’s vital that the guitar is designed and made well so the bridge is in the perfect place when it’s new, and it doesn’t move even after years of being played.
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When you play a guitar, you feel the wooden fingerboard and the metal frets inlaid into it more than any other part of the instrument. They affect the sound, the feel and the tuning of the guitar, so picking the right materials and making sure they’re put together correctly is essential.
Hard, dark woods like ebony and rosewood are the most commonly used fingerboard woods as they provide an ideal blend of durability and resilience along with a good tone.
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