What Is Intonation? Guitar Maintenance Lesson

What Is Intonation? Guitar Maintenance Lesson
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Intonation is basically scale length compensation. The guitar is an unevenly tuned instrument (unlike a piano for example which is perfect) which means that as you play across the fretboard some notes are slightly flat and some are slightly flat. To adjust this, and get the whole guitar as in tune as possible, we adjust the saddles on the bridge which shortens or lengthen the scale length (length of the string from the nut to the bridge).
In terms of when you should adjust the intonation, it is very much the last thing you do in your set up. It is the only process that won't have a knock on effect, and therefore we do it last. Once your neck relief and action is sorted, only then do you adjust the intonation.
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[@dhakabassist]

This series is really helpful

[@Sasquatch10]

I concur. I've had my notepad out and when i'm done with the series im finally gonna set up my guitar for the first time.

[@danreid6712]

Sharp shorten not.