Editing Multi-scale fingerboard (section)

===Ralph Novak===
Ralph Novak is a guitar designer, builder and repairer who brought back an old technique in the design of the fanned-fret guitar (used on stringed instruments since the origins of guitar itself{{Citation needed|date=May 2016}}). His merchandise tag was to provide an "ideal" electric guitar for [[blues]] musicians.<ref name="vintage">[http://www.vintageguitar.com/1771/ralph-novak/ "Ralph Novak."] Vintage Guitars website. Accessed 17 October 2012.</ref><ref name="greenfield">[http://www.greenfieldguitars.com/] Greenfield guitars website. Accessed 11 December 2012.</ref> As a musician, he wanted an instrument that provided better [[Musical tone|tonality]] and prevented his fingers sliding from the end of the fret when bending the high E string.

:"“The fanned-fret idea actually started out from a very simple and very selfish notion”, says Novak. “As a blues guitar player, I liked to do a lot of note-bending, and at the same time I liked to have a crisp, crunchy sound on the low strings. My initial idea was to create a guitar that had a Les Paul-type of sustain and sweetness of the trebles and had the kind of crunch and definition of a Tele or Strat on the basses. From doing repairs for a number of years, I knew it wasn’t the construction, the stiffness of the neck, or the types of wood causing these tonal things. And it wasn’t the pickups.”<ref name="greenfield"/> Novak copied an old method of fret positioning, which provides to each string its natural scale length, to achieve a better intonation on the whole string set.