AlbertCW
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@zman – I ran into a similar problem last night while working on fingerstyle. I had taken my Taylor 416 to play at church service and was working on Freight Train afterwards. The first 2 measures are a C chord and I kept muting the D string off and on. If I strum a C chord I’m fine but moving my index and pinky was causing a slight shift of my ring finger.
Today is my day to check guitar humidifiers so I got out my calipers and measured the nut on each guitar. My Taylor has the narrowest nut @ 1.6″ while my Yamaha A3M almost 1.7″, my Yamaha 12 string is 1.8″ and my classical is just over 2″. Looks like the A3M is going to be my fingerstyle guitar.
One solution you might look at is getting a 12 string and remove the octave strings. Sweetwater Sound has entry level 12 strings starting @ $219
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Beth,
I’ve subscribed and want to thank you for posting these videos. You are an inspiration to me as I watch your journey of learning to play guitar.
Keep up the good work.
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Being a Taylor owner for the last 15 years I would definitely contact Taylor to see if they might be able to do something to save it. If you have homeowners or renters insurance you might want to check with your agent to see if this might be covered. We have a class A motorhome with dual slides and I always check to be sure that there is nothing in the way when extending and retracting. Accident or not, if I had done this, I would be getting you a new guitar. Good friendships are worth more than a guitar.
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I broke the middle finger on my fretting hand 8 years ago, I lost some flexibility and was having issues getting it on the high E string. I started doing the same thing back in November and found that it takes less finger movement when changing chords. I’m finally getting to the point where 50 years of muscle memory is being overwritten when I play a D chord.