A: Whenever you purchase something by mail or phone, the worrying possibility is that you might not like it! We don’t expect this, but who knows? And so, as our way of looking out for you, and to make it safe for you to purchase an instrument without any fear of being stuck, we have [...]
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Q: Many Megatar instruments are inexpensive, but your sound is better than others costing more. How you do that?
A: It’s a matter of priorities. In our design process, we’re mainly interested in the sound and playability. So you think, what do we know sounds best? How can we utilize the science of sound? And what will give us superior playability? For example, guitar-builders know if you want good tone, the instrument must be [...]
Q: Has Mobius Megatar developed the perfect instrument?
A: They’re pretty darn good, but we don’t think they’re perfect. Perfection is a moving target. As soon as you’ve improved one thing, it’s impossible not to see something else that could be done better. In the southwestern United States, there was once a tribe who believed that if they made a pot or a [...]
Q: How do you compare your instrument to other touch-style instruments?
A: Well, first of all, if you know how to play any other manufacturer’s instrument specially made for touch-style play, then you’ll find our instrument very easy, and you may well enjoy some of the innovations we’ve added. That said, we think there’s a lot to like about instruments made by several other manufacturers, and [...]
Q: How fast is delivery?
A; Real fast, compared to other makers of tapping instruments, because we use what we call the ‘Almost Ready’ Inventory System. Though ideally we would like to offer ‘same day shipping’ like Amazon Books, in practice it’s not always that way. Because our instruments are ‘semi-custom’, although we generally have plenty of stock, we cannot [...]
Q: I thought that the Buzz Feiten Intonation System has to do with the nut, and tappers don’t play open strings at all! What gives?
A: Lots of folks believe this, because Buzz Feiten’s *first* discovery had to do with moving the nut to make the open strings play more in tune with the fretted strings. However, after that he went further, and along with super-luthier Greg Back of Southern California, they developed a whole set of adjustments you make [...]
Q: Does the Buzz Feiten Intonation System really work?
A: Check it out with your own ears. It works. Major players all over the globe, including Stu Hamm, Liona Boyd, Robert Fripp, Larry Carlton, Jimmy Haslip, Joe Satriani, and Steve Vai all have good ears. Every one of them will now play on nothing else. You’ve got ears. Give a listen to a Feiten-tuned [...]
Q: Why is Mobius’s standard tuning like a bass?
A: Why not? It’s a bass! The tuning of a standard six-string bass is a good thing. Musicians all around the world already know this tuning so it’s easy for them to learn touch-style on a tuning they already know. There is also the popular bass-strings tuning we call ‘Inverted Fifths’ which has some enthusiasts [...]
Q: I worked a long time to learn six strings on my guitar. How can playing these twelve strings be easy?
A: It’s easier than it looks. Did you ever hear about the guy who, seeing a piano for the first time, said, “Man! How can you ever mash all those notes at once?” It’s the same idea. You don’t play them all at once. In fact, we start out just playing three strings just above [...]
