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martin body sizes
Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:44 pm
by tippie53
Re: martin body sizes
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 12:34 pm
by johnnparchem
Thanks, I can use this.
Re: martin body sizes
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:07 pm
by thronson
Chart has the long scale length for both OOO's. It is my understanding that the standard is the 24.9 in scale. ?? am i wrong again? or just a typo?
Re: martin body sizes
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:38 pm
by thronson
After some reading of history, I think I have it.
Currently the 12 fret OOO is the long scale and the 14 fret OOO is mostly short scale and in some cases the long scale.
Historically the 12 fret OOO started at the standard scale for gut strings (short scale) ... then soon after lengthened to provide more power to activate the larger soundboard. thus the long scale ... when steel string came into being the long scale was retained ...
The 14 fret OOO started out as a name change for the lackluster sales of the OM with the long scale. So the first 14 fret OOO had the long scale ... One year later in 1934, the shorter scale was used. When the OM production resumed, it had the longer scale.