Talk:Superstrat

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Postulations by original author, removed from main article - Who coined the term super-strat (Grover Jackson, maybe)? Which Casio? Beautiful, all-black thing

These aren't awfully useful in the main body of the article (particularly the second) hence moving them here. Brother Dysk 11:10, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Similar to the fender showmaster the fender HM strat should also be included here as well.

It is already mentioned at the bottom --GreyCat 21:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

With no discussion regarding the proposed merger of Super Strat and Fender Showmaster, I'll remove the tag. Both articles are distinct enough. Ariedartin JECJY ^Talk 15:00, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] artificial harmonics

In general, a neck with 24 frets instead of 21 frets does not actually make artificial harmonics harder. What can make it more difficult is having neck through construction as opposed to bolt on construction. I own real strats, superstrats that are bolt on and a super strat that is neck through. Every neck through I have played has difficulty with artificial harmonics. This is because in a neck through the primary tone is more powerful (this is why they have better sustain as others have noted here).

When plucking and individual string on a stringed instrument you are in a sense producing an entire "chord" of harmonics. The single note that "hear" is the primary tone. Harmonic are produced by removing more dominant tones from that "chord" by muting them at certain locations on the string.

A more detailed explanation of the physics of this belongs in another article; I will simply update this article to correctly reflect this fact.

Well, 21 vs 24 fret fact is also really simple to explain. Guitars with 21-22 fret necks have pickups' polepieces specifically aligned so that they match positions of artificial harmonics. Guitarists with 24 fret necks don't have this luxury, so they have to more or less guess proper locations => it's some sort of inconvenience => somewhat harder to get AHs.

Basically, both these facts require to be verifiable in terms of Wikipedia, so we need to add them both with links to good sources that state so (not only from our own personal experience). --GreyCat 23:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)