ARE WE MISSING OUT?
I am always looking to improve. I never dismiss anything new in guitar tech until I have tried it myself. Of course what with Covid and a world of online, buy first find out later we all need some help.
the fine print
Strandberg came up with their neck by comparing the 'best' positions to place your hand via what is taught to players that play a classical guitar in the classical position. It indeed does just that. The thing is the electric guitar has it's own vocabulary including things like hammer-ons, pull-offs, trills, side to side vibrato and bends just to name the obvious. Then there is the need for palm muting techniques. You can not have all of the various techniques served by any one specific shape of neck. I do believe a rounded back on the neck is the least problematic for even the very best players that play in a wide variety of styles. There are many styles that have their virtuoso players that play guitars that are far from ergonomic.
One is of course creating movements that are unnatural to the hand to do repetitively to play any guitar. In short repetitive strain injury even if mild is a given. We all sit in front of a PC for long periods of time which has it's own hazards. But ever since the first pointed stick became a spear we are fated to create tools that have as many drawbacks as benefits, LOL.
ONE FINAL NOTE
As for headless guitars they may make a guitar lighter or more balanced but no body at all Steinberger fashion does that too. Secondly body shape and size dictates how far you have to stretch to reach lower or even higher notes. All these factors are both an asset and a compromise unless the guitar is designed for just the player that owns it.
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