First one I'd say. It's less contrast so not that tiresome to look at.
Which of these pieces of wood do you find most visually appealing and why?
There's of course the downside to it, that is, the entire instrument now has a home key it is built around and the further you modulate from that, the more off that scale will sound.
On an equal temperament instrument, all scales sound equally (just barely) off.
Since most songs for guitar will be written around the chords that come naturally (are the easiest to finger) this is not really your priority, but if you want to play in a group setting with instruments which might have different home keys... equal temperament is a better idea.
>true temperament frets are just closer to equal temperament than standard guitar frets
Sure you mean natural temperament, right?
>they are by no means made to sound better around certain keys
If they're off equal temperament, they sound better in some keys than in others, because, yknow, the temperament ain't equal.
I guess it makes sense people don't want to go all the way, though.
I went for the first one.
you know, actually I think the very same way as you about all this but since the manufacturer and several high cred guitar YouTubers say otherwise I am unsure what to believe.
if you want a taste of how they sound, I recommend searching "true temperament frets paul davis" on YouTube.
It almost reminds one of a synth because it is so awkward to hear a guitar tuned closer to equal temperament.
I'd say you're both wrong. Basically, there's no such thing as natural harmonic because there's many of them based on different ratios which are noted in these chart numbers in blue. However, these are not really combinable - if you go 7/5 two times you get 49/25 instead of 2/1, and the same with other intervals, no number of perfect fifths would give you a just number of octaves etc.
Basically it means there's no way to make perfect frets as there's no such thing as a pefect natural pitch, many slightly different intervals are natural at the same time and all these different fret systems are just different compromises.
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In some sense yes, in some quite the opposite. Equal temperament is like average of all the different definitions while these TTF are fit for some of these definitions exactly completely disregarding others. It's not like there's some perfect pitch frequency - there're just different tunings with different overall sound and you may chose which one fits your melody the best.
Anyway strings are always imperfect, real frequency of a string depends not only on its free length but also on stiffness (see fanned frets), pressure and some unrelated factors so there's not a lot of sense in trying to hit some exact frequencies with frets. Many other instruments don't have frets at all and have great sound (if you can play them).
OK I get it, this doesn't compensate only for the difference between equal and natural temperament, but also for the fact that due to how tension of the string works (I remember calculating this in physics class lol) pinching the string itself already ups the pitch a bit (+ natural harmonics themselves of a string under tension aren't powers of 2...)
