• Registered: 2008-10-02
  • Posts: 192

Topic: Jazz guys...Floating bridge?!?

I've seen a lot of jazz guitars with "floating bridges". So the bridge is not fixed in place? It is just held in place by string tension? What happens when you change strings and it looses its place? Do you have to do a set up at each string change? What if you bump the bridge mid performance? You loose tune and intonation? Why would you want a floating bridge?

  • From: Alabama Gulf Coast
  • Registered: 2008-06-24
  • Posts: 1,819

Re: Jazz guys...Floating bridge?!?

Change one string at a time and pull it into tune before removing another.
My 1960 Gibson 330 has a floating bridge and it really helped me when I played in a band with a steel guitarist who had to tune 20 strings and 12 pedals with tuning forks.
The guy was an intonation freak.
I didn't blame him.

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  • From: Western Oregon,US
  • Registered: 2008-07-22
  • Posts: 2,498

Re: Jazz guys...Floating bridge?!?

Intonation Freak!   but I bet the darn thing sounded incredible!

For those of us that tend to be O.C. about some things..... I can Identify!

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Doug

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