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Tigerdaisy wrote:The short scale doesn't give the Fender 'twang' but is slightly easier on the hands for fingering certain chords- I find a Gibson SG type of guitar easier to play chords on than a Strat. We're only talking about 1/2 inch or so difference and so you don't really notice the difference that much, except that there's less of a stretch fingering chords.
I should add that all Gibsons are 'short scale' and all Fenders are the longer scale, (as far as I'm aware) why exactly these choices were made in the first place I don't know, but there are subtle differences in character of sound. PRS mostly uses the shorter scale although they use the longer scale for their Fender type guitars.
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