Help with choosing the instrument

[sabatica]

If it doesn't work out I have mine here in London. However Thomann are excellent at deliveries worldwide

[tonii]

Hi Stefan!

An apology for the delayed response which I can justify very rare visiting forums lately. Not, I still did not get the lap steel guitar because my wife this month visit to Canada and she expressed a desire to buy the instrument and bring it here.I really do not know yet what I'm going to buy because of the game are the banjo, mandolin, 8 strings lap steel and possibly cheaper student model pedal steel that if I can find in the price range up to 700$ .

Best Regards!
Toni

[CNPCNP]

You get better sustain and increased transfer of sound to body with a solid bridge with a flat top and no moving parts. The number of different parts in an adjustable bridge just filter out some of the vibrations. And you don't need the adjustments for height and intonation on a steel guitar, like you do on a standard guitar: because (for example) a G# in a chord comes out as a G#, never an Ab (which would sound flat); the placement of the bar sees to that. But let's not go back through equal/unjust temperament? But you can check it out on a music theory site.

Hi Tony!

This is good information for me because I've always thought about changing the bridge on the G5700.

Perfect info for me as well, thanks !

Just curious, why did you want to change the bridge on your G5700 ?

I have a G5700 as well (since one day) and had the same urge,
since the 'fret-board' is not totally accurate - or put in another way: the intonation is not perfect.
Lower octave is ~fine, but the next higher octave above that is up to a 'fret' in difference. How accurate is yours ?

Too bad the present bridge might be difficult to shift a little bit, the screw holes would interfere I'm afraid.

I do realize you need good monitoring anyway. And I realize that perfect-intonation w.r.t. the markers might be a fretted-people thing... probably lapsteel players are used to non-perfect markers for ages


Thanks!

PS
My first post here, good info here, thanks!