Talk:Zero fret

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[edit] Floyd Rose

Isin't a floyd rose style tremolo installed as a zero fret?

I don't think a guitar with a zero fret can acually use a floyd rose. Because the fret zero will become unusable.

The locking nut of a Floyd Rose tremolo is installed in place of the nut. It seems as though you could install one on a guitar with a zero fret while keeping the zero fret, although my guess is that the strings would rattle excessively on the zero fret when you dump the tremolo. Proper installation of the locking nut would depend on how much headstock material is available, since you have to route a flat spot for the locking nut; if you route too much off, the headstock will become too weak. Furthermore, the general style of guitars that have zero frets are not the style of guitar most often converted to take a Floyd Rose. Most guitars with zero frets are either hollow or semi-hollow archtops or older cheapos, and on every one of these instruments that I've seen, a top-mounted tremolo, such as the Bigsby-style tremolo, is a more viable option. Anderson guitars typically come with a Strat-style tremolo, and Micro-Frets instruments had their own kind of top-mounted tremolo. JSC ltd 16:20, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] open string same tone as fretted ??

I corrected the assertion that a zero fret allows the tone of a fretted note to be the same as an open note. People who say this must never have played an instrument with a zero fret! It's simply not at all true. The finger or capo on the string makes a huge difference, far bigger than the difference between fret and nut.

[edit] critisisms of the article

There are problems with the way the article is written, in the first paragraph it needs to be noted that it refers to a change in the neck of a guitar, banjo or bass and not it is not refering to what you often see in tablature when it says 0 (meaning open string), we may need a disambiguous page- discuss.

We need a visual aid to help people visualise what a zero fret looks like to help dismiss any confusion with tablature.

I will add a section mentioning that one of the main problems with playing with an open string is that often it creates a sound that vibrates too much and sounds too different from the fretted strings, non guitarists will not know about this and the article is intended for use by everyone.

We need to mention a few musicians who use zero fret instruments. --Mikeoman 10:18, 22 July 2007 (UTC)