The Buzz Feiten Intonation System

Have you ever had trouble tuning your guitar?  And who hasn't?

The Buzz Feiten Intonation System will put an end to all your tuning
problems!

Even when your guitar is freshly intonated with new strings, it still has
what I call the standard tuning problems - one chord sounds perfectly in
tune while another sounds a bit out.  For example, tune an E chord at the
first fret so it sounds in tune with itself.  Now play the A and D chords
and at least one or two notes are sharp or flat. No matter how carefully you tune your guitar, you can't compensate for this 'brick wall' in intonation.
Some chords will always sound better than others.  The best you can do is
play around the bad notes or maybe avoid certain notes and chords
altogether.  Besides cramping your technique, it's a constant annoyance when
performing and especially when recording.

Guitars are designed and built using a standard formula for intonation and
nut placement. Each string is intonated only to itself according to a tuning
system called 'equal temperament'. Piano tuners abandoned strict equal
temperament long ago because it simply is not pleasing to the ear. Instead,
pianos are 'stretch tuned' to make them play in pleasing intonation anywhere
on the keyboard. The resulting "stretched" tuning is superbly musical, and
most importantly in tune.

The Buzz Feiten Intonation System is, simply put, a stretched tuning for
guitars.  The results are like a breath of fresh air for guitarists,
recording engineers, and all who hear their work.  You will find yourself
playing chords and intervals where you previously feared to tread!  All your
first position cowboy chords - E, A, D, C, and G - will get along with each
other.  Chords with close intervals - major 7's, 9's, minor 9's, 6/9's,
etc. - will sound smoother and less dissonant.  Chords high up on the neck
with open strings in them are no problem.  Your whole guitar will sound
clearer, richer, and more relaxed, the result of much greater harmony
between all the notes on the fretboard.  I am sure that once you play a
Feitenized guitar you will never want to play a normally intonated guitar
again!

I was the first Buzz Feiten Intonation System retrofitter east of the
Mississippi.  I flew out to Santa Monica, California, back in 1997 to learn
the System straight from Buzz Feiten and his partner and luthier, Greg Back.
I was very skeptical about any intonation system that claimed to be better
than Equal Temperament, but Buzz made a believer out of me right off the bat
simply by playing on some guitars using his new intonation system.  Right
away I could hear a relaxed, pleasantly in tune sound that was unlike
anything I'd ever heard before.

There is one thing I need to warn you about, and it is a very serious
warning indeed.  Once you get one of your guitars Feitenized, you will find
it very frustrating if not downright unpleasant to play on a "normal" guitar
again, so you will probably wind up doing what many of my customers have
done and Feitenizing your entire guitar collection!