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Click to 0:45 to see shredder Steve Vai show off his special guitar with bent frets to ensure that all of the notes are “really” in tune.
As he (doesn’t really) explain: “It’s just the nature of the way notes work.”
I guess this is some kind of special temperament system, but I don’t know enough to tell if this is actually just intonation, or some other kind of special thing.
(via Musformation)
